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Why IT Matters: An Empirical Study of E-Business Usage, Innovation, and Firm Performance
Köllinger, Philipp - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
-tionship between firm performance and innovation, I estimate an error component model that controls for unobserved market …The article argues that IT continues to have strategic relevance for companies because it en-ables innovation. A … conceptual link between the adoption of IT and innovation is established. This conceptual link allows a market-based, economic …
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Measuring Alpha in the Fund Management Industry: Do Female Managers Perform Better?
Babalos, Vassilios; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds' designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …
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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869171
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New Business Formation and Regional Development: A Survey and Assessment of the Evidence
Fritsch, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
research and draw some conclusions for entrepreneurship policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021842
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Does Quality Make a Difference?: Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
discuss the implications for entrepreneurship policy that can be derived from our findings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021843
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Entry Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from a German Natural Experiment
Rostam-Afschar, Davud - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671251
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765038
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Foreign Bank Presence and Its Effect on Firm Entry and Exit in Transition Economies
Havrylchyk, Olena - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This study investigates the impact of foreign bank penetration in Central and Eastern Europe on firm entry. We demonstrate that the acquisition of domestic banks by foreign investors has led to reduced firm creation, smaller average size of entrants and increased firm exit in opaque industries...
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The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128857
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Why Did Self-Employment Increase So Strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...
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