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It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out …
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that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual’s decision to start a business is determined by his...
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …
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This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
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We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and …
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In the paper we analyze determinants of the capital market beta risk in Poland in the monthly period 1996-2002. The … market risk in Poland in the period 1999-2002. We find that monetary variables as exchange rate and interest rate have … relatively more power than real variables in explaining the beta market risk in Poland. …
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economic growth in Poland over the period Q2, 1993 – Q2, 2003. …
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administrative co-operation with the central government and of the less well-developed financial market in Poland, the Slovak …
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