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capitalist. The entrepreneur has incentives to distort the innovation strategy so as to make an IPO the preferred exit. We derive …-improving product innovation. We explicitly introduce product market characteristics into the analysis with the aim to identify their … if the entrepreneur enjoys private benefits from staying an independent manager in the firm after the exit of the venture …
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geographically and function-ally. They promoted rapid innovation by resorting to systematic Research and Development ef- forts. And … innovation in the econ-omy. Hence, to the extent that policy makers strive to achieve the priorities of citizens, they are …
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The formulation of a competitive strategy implies an extended understanding, in terms of the industrial structures, of the mains fields where the nations compete and those structures evolve. The environmental conditions of a region, and of its industries, determine both the generic strategies,...
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game condition. Meanwhile, humans are known to show a social stress response during face-to-face social interactions, which … might affect economic behaviors. Furthermore, it is known that there are individual differences in a social stress response … capacities of social memory. In the present study, we investigated the acute effects of social stress- induced free cortisol (a …
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This paper examines the impact of maternal employment during a child’s first three years and during adolescence on his … adolescence is correlated with increased involvement in risky activities. …
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With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of incidence and duration and find that most variables...
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I examine a Knightian model of entrepreneurial risk and investment where in addition to the self-selection process for choosing entrepreneurs, there is an evolutionary selection process over the representation of various risk attitudes. Under a standard evolutionary dynamic, rather than...
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We evaluate the impact of bank loans and start-up subsidies on the survival of the new firms. This work relies on the SINE94 survey that provides rich information on the entrepreneurs and their start-up projects. We use the propensity score matching methodology, in the case of multiple...
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In this paper we study the labour market behavior of employed individuals that have entrepreneurial aspirations in addition to aspirations to switch job. We analyze empirically these two “search processes” side-by-side and report three main findings: First, neither entrepreneurial...
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.e., their prediction ability), and derives an aggregate production function as a result of entrepreneurship. An increase in … affects the total factor productivity (TFP) of an economy, the model can explain how entrepreneurship influences TFP. …
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