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Do Public Subsidies Have an Impact on New Firm Survival? An Empirical Study with French Data

Desiage, Lionel; Duhautois, Richard; Redor, Dominique - HAL - 2010

This paper deals with the impact of social contributions and tax cuts (which are considered as operating subsidies) on new firms' probability of survival and economic performance. We use a rich matched database of French firms that were newly created in 1998 and that include entrepreneurs'...

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Pre Entry Motives into Entrepreneurship and Post Entry Entrepreneurial Orientation

Bonnet, Jean; Pape, Nicolas Le - HAL - 2010

characteristics, the tastes of customers, the rules of the competition on the product market. For them the Entrepreneurial Orientation …

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Entrepreneurial motives and performance: Why might better educated entrepreneurs be less successful?

Bhattacharjee, Arnab; Bonnet, Jean; Pape, Nicolas Le; … - HAL - 2009

In a sample of newly created French firms, the impact of an entrepreneurís education on the firm's survival varies widely depending on his previous labor market situation. While it is strongly positive for the overall population, it is much weaker or insignificant for entrepreneurs who were...

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The Cost of Pollution on Longevity, Welfare and Economic Stability

Raffin, Natacha; Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2014

of longevity. Public expenditure, financed through labour taxation, provide both public health and abatement. We study … the complementarity between the three components of longevity on welfare and economic stability. At the steady state, we … show that an appropriate fiscal policy may enhance welfare. However, when pollution is heavily harmful for longevity, the …

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Prevention against equality?

Fleurbaey, Marc; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2012

Common sense supports prevention policies aimed at improving survival prospects among the population. It is also widely acknowledged that an early death is a serious disadvantage, and that attention should be paid to the compensation of short-lived individuals. This paper re-examines the...

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Compensating the dead? Yes we can!

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2010

An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has remained so far largely unexplored, probably because it appears infeasible. Indeed, short-lived agents can hardly be identified ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue...

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Existence and stability of overconsumption equilibria

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009

there exist non-converging cycles in output and longevity around overconsumption equilibria. …

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Unequal longevities and lifestyles transmission

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2008

Whereas studies on the optimal taxation under endogenous longevity assume a fixed heterogeneity of lifestyles, this … the population, who ignores the negative impact of excessive work on longevity, is partitioned in two groups with …

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Optimal tax policy and expected longevity: A mean and variance utility approach

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2008

This paper studies the normative problem of redistribution between agents who can infuence their survival probability through private health spending, but who differ in their attitude towards the risks involved in the lotteries of life to be chosen. For that purpose, a two-period model is...

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Survival, reproduction and congestion: The spaceship problem re-examined

Jouvet, Pierre-André; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2010

This paper re-examines the spaceship problem, i.e. the design of the optimal population under a fixed living space, by focusing on the dilemma between adding new beings and extending the life of existing beings. For that purpose, we characterize, under time-additive individual welfare depending...

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