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Designing efficient institutions for science-based entrepreneurship : lessons from the US and Sweden

Henrekson, Magnus (contributor); … - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]

sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the … individual decisions involved when educational choice is translated into science-based entrepreneurship. Identifying these … comprehensive government support schemes, science-based entrepre-neurship has been far less important in Sweden compared to the US …

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Corporate financial policies and performance around currency crises

Bris, Arturo (contributor); Koskinen, Yrjö (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource], Rev. June 6, 2002

Using data from 17 countries that have suffered a currency crisis, this paper studies firm-level leverage and performance measures before and after a crisis has occurred. We show that in the years preceding a currency crisis, companies that are expected to benefit from currency depreciations...

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Historical evidence on business cycles : the international experience

Bergman, Michael U.; Bordo, Michael D.; Jonung, Lars - 1998

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Tax effects on work activity, industry mix and shadow economy size : evidence from rich-country comparisons

Davis, Steven J. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Guided by a simple theory of task assignment and time allocation, we investigate the long run response to national differences in tax rates on labor income, payrolls and consumption. The theory implies that higher tax rates reduce work time in the market sector, increase the size of the shadow...

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Bottom-up vs. top-down policies towards the commercialization of university intellectual property

Goldfarb, Brent (contributor); Henrekson, Magnus (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource], Rev. May 26, 2002

academic freedoms to interact with industry, including significant involvement in new firms. -- Academic entrepreneurship …

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E-commerce and prices : theory and evidence

Friberg, Richard (contributor); … - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource], Rev. September 8, 2000

This paper examines the relation between prices in conventional stores and on the Internet. Main results from the theoretical analysis are i) we expect a discrete fall in prices in conventional stores as the share of the population with access to Internet reaches a critical level, ii) the...

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Swedish economic growth and scholarly objectivity : an objective sociologist vs. subjective economists, or the way around?

Henrekson, Magnus (contributor) - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Walter Korpi argues in a previous issue of Challenge (March/April 2000) that Swedish economists' claim that Sweden's growth performance has been inferior to that of other industrialized countries is at odds with the facts. Since Sweden has not grown slowly relative to other countries, there is...

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The survival of new products

Asplund, Marcus; Sandin, Rickard - 1996

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Entrepreneurial behavior and business performance

Delmar, Frédéric - 1996

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Entrepreneurship : a weak link in the welfare state

Henrekson, Magnus (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource], Rev. March 11, 2005

Entrepreneurship is largely ignored or treated in a highly simplified way in endogenous growth theory. Still, it is now … creation. This study consists of an in-depth examination of how the supply of productive entrepreneurship is likely to be … institutions have systematically reduced economic incentives both for opportunity-based and necessity entrepreneurship. Both …

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