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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - CESifo - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
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The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Not Just a Matter of Personality
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander; … - CESifo - 2014
Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775095
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015
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 … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257678
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Entrepreneurship in a Unionised Economy
Leppämäki, Mikko; Kanniainen, Vesa - CESifo - 2000
labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated … numerically. The main result is that an increase in union power reduces the equilibrium rate of entrepreneurship and reduces the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181309
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Enterprise Formation and Labor Market Institutions
Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - CESifo - 2000
The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406064
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Distributional Consequences of Labor-demand Shocks: The 2008-09 Recession in Germany
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - CESifo - 2011
The distributional consequences of the recent economic crisis are still broadly unknown. While it is possible to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914277
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Emergent Dynamics of a Macroeconomic Agent Based Model with Capital and Credit
Assenza, Tiziana; Gatti, Domenico Delli; Grazzini, Jakob - CESifo - 2014
Building on the framework put forward by Delli Gatti et al. 2011, in this paper we present and discuss a Macroeconomic Agent-Based Model with Capital and Credit (hereafter CC-MABM). The novelty of this model with respect to the previous framework consists in the introduction of capital goods...
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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis: US vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - CESifo - 2009
automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583723
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When Arm's Length Is Too Far. Relationship Banking over the Business Cycle
Beck, Thorsten; Degryse, Hans; Haas, Ralph de; Horen, … - CESifo - 2014
Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks’ lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms’ credit constraints at two...
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The Impact of R&D Cooperations on Drug Variety Offered on the Market. Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry
Banerjee, Tannista; Siebert, Ralph - CESifo - 2014
Our study puts special attention to the fact that R&D cooperations in the pharmaceutical industry are formed at different stages throughout the drug development process. We study if the timing to engage in R&D cooperations in the pharmaceutical industry has different impacts on the technology...
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