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It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out … of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present …
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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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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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We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and …
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its competitiveness and decreased exports towards its European trading partners. Our findings do not provide empirical …
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Two main approaches have been implemented in regional CO2 markets to address competitiveness and carbon leakage: output …
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markets, they have left the competitiveness problem of the Eurozone’s southern countries and France unresolved. The paper …
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A finite number of sellers (n) compete in schedules to supply an elastic demand. The costs of the sellers have uncertain common and private value components and there is no exogenous noise in the system. A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized; the equilibrium is privately...
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