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Institutionally Induced Human Capital Vintages and Economic Growth in Transition

Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa; Ganev, Kaloyan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In this paper we introduce additional parameters of the economic environment related to some notion of “distance” to institutions in a simple formal model. This distance could be viewed as an uneven spatial distribution (or coverage) of institutions with respect to population distribution....

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Attraction of Foreign Direct Investments as a Challenge in Accession Process to European Union

Stanisic, Nenad; Jankovic, Nenad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

When we speak about the significance of foreign direct investments (FDI) for the transition economies of Southeastern Europe, we mainly think of two important effects of FDI: effect on economic growth and effect on export performances. Both economic features (growth and export performance) are...

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Grooming Classifications: Exchange Rate Regimes and Growth in Transition Economies

Petreski, Marjan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The objective of this paper is to test the exchange rate regime – growth nexus in transition economies by looking if and how some inherent characteristics of the transition process might have affected the de-facto classifications of exchange rate regimes. 28 transition countries of Central and...

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Financial Development and Economic Growth in Poland in Transition: Causality Analysis

Gurgul, Henryk; Lach, Łukasz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study examines the causal relationship between economic growth and financial development in Poland on the basis of quarterly data for the period 2000 Q1–2011 Q4. In order to examine the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on the structure of financial sector-GDP links in Poland we...

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Financial development and economic growth in Poland in transition: causality analysis

Gurgul, Henryk; Łukasz, Lach - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The economic literature suggests that the efficient allocation of resources by the financial system speeds up economic development and reduces poverty. However, there are economists who find financial development to be the result of economic growth. This study examines causal relationship...

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Creativity and Industrial Cities: A Case Study of Baltimore

Acs, Zoltan J.; Megyesi, Monika I. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2007

Creativity is changing the way cities approach economic development and formulate policy. Creative metropolises base their economic development strategies, at least partly, on building communities attractive to the creative class worker. While there are countless examples of high-tech regions...

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Understanding the role of entrepreneurship for economic growth

Carree, Martin; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

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Who Starts a Business and Who Is Self-Employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

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Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Choice and Risk Aversion: A Decomposition Based on a Microeconometric Model

Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? Women have both to a lower entry rate into selfemployment and a higher exit rate in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which includes a standard risk aversion parameter. As inputs...

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Spatial Disparities: Divisions and Changes of Self-employment and Firms

Bögenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

entrepreneurship and asks for its overlapping with categories of self-employment and of innovation. Although these terms cover only … partially the same meanings, political discourse often equals the slogan to foster entrepreneurship and innovation with an … firms without further employees. An equation of entrepreneurship with innovation activities and in-creasing self …

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