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The effect of business regulations on nascent and actual entrepreneurship

Stel, Andre van; Storey, David; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

This paper investigates the effect of business regulations on various measures of entrepreneurship. Using data for a … sample of countries participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 and 2005, we estimate a two …-equation model explaining the nascent and the actual entrepreneurship rate, while taking into account the interrelationship between …

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The World Trade Organization in the New Global Economy

Rugman, Alan M. (contributor); Boyd, Gavin (contributor) - Edward Elgar

Despite the disruption of the multilateral trade talks at Seattle in December 1999, the work of the World Trade Organization (WTO) continues. The trade and investment issues that have been outstanding since the Seattle events are explored in this far reaching book. The distinguished contributors...

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The Structural Foundations of International Finance

Padoan, Pier Carlo (contributor); … - Edward Elgar

The Structural Foundations of International Finance examines the ways in which national economies, especially those of industrialized countries, are affected by the operations of international financial markets. Although these markets provide productive funding, there is also much speculative...

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Global Corporate Governance

Lewis, Mervyn K. - Edward Elgar

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Alliance Capitalism and Corporate Management

Dunning, John H. (contributor); Boyd, Gavin (contributor) - Edward Elgar

entrepreneurship – as a means to facilitate more harmonious development in the international economy. …

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Alliance Capitalism for the New American Economy

Rugman, Alan M. (contributor); Boyd, Gavin (contributor) - Edward Elgar

Alliance Capitalism for the New American Economy advocates engagement with the USA’s macromanagement problems in a spirit of alliance capitalism, for the development of a more integrated, dynamic economy. Whereas most studies of the USA emphasise the efficiency effects of intense competition...

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Free Trade in the Americas

Weintraub, Sidney (contributor); Rugman, Alan M. (contributor) - Edward Elgar

This book examines the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), an ambitious venture in regional market integration which builds on the principles of the North American Free Trade Agreement. It assesses the long-term corporate and public policy measures to cope with the increased monetary, fiscal...

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European–American Trade and Financial Alliances

Boyd, Gavin (contributor); Rugman, Alan M. (contributor); … - Edward Elgar

In this, his final book, Gavin Boyd has brought together a distinguished group of experts on the nature and extent of transatlantic policy coordination and its implication for corporate strategy. This remarkably relevant set of papers offers a discussion on the economic and financial linkage...

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Reforming China’s State-owned Enterprises and Banks

Chiu, Becky; Lewis, Mervyn K. - Edward Elgar

This book’s starting point is that after two decades of experiments, during which other transition economies have effectively privatised all of their former state enterprises, China is still endeavouring to find a way to reinvent and re-engineer its own state-owned economic establishments. The...

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An Islamic Perspective on Governance

Iqbal, Zafar; Lewis, Mervyn K. - Edward Elgar

Zafar Iqbal and Mervyn K. Lewis examine, from an Islamic perspective, some central issues in public, economic and corporate governance. Amongst topics analysed are theories of justice, taxation, budget deficits, Islamic financing modes, public and private accountability, and corruption. This...

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