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Perceptions of entrepreneurs among polish students
Starnawska, Marzena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The aim of this paper is to present how we can approach and explore the field of entrepreneurship phenomenon in an … management research. We hope to outline how we can approach topic of entrepreneurship using alternative, not mainstream method … entrepreneurship was Baumol (1990) who analyzed perceptions of entrepreneurs from historical perspective. He has distinguished three …
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...
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In Transit: The Well-Being of Migrants from Transition and Post-Transition Countries
Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol Lee - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The extant literature has focused on migration's consequences for the receiving countries. In this paper, we ask a different but important question: how much do migrants gain from moving to another country? Using Gallup World Poll data and a methodology combining statistical matching with...
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The privatization of public banks: will it always turn out to be satisfactory?
Apak, Sudi; Atakisi, Ahmet; Ozkan, Levent; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The concept of privatization has been deepened due to the liberalization progress in the world economy since the beginning of 1980's. In order to slip out of the great depression period in 1929, the share of government activity in economy and government intervention has been increased and this...
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Happy Moves? Assessing the Link Between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions
Ivlevs, Artjoms - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
It has been shown that higher levels of subjective well-being lead to greater work productivity, better physical health and enhanced social skills. Because of these positive externalities, policymakers across the world should be interested in attracting and retaining happy and life-satisfied...
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Do Trust-Based Relations Improve Firm’s Performance? Evidence from Transition Economies
Berulava, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of trust-based relations on firm’s performance in transition economies. The trade credit variable is used as a proxy of trust-based relations and the propensity score matching method is employed to establish casual link between relational...
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Способы формирования контрактных институтов: эволюция versus революция
Tamilina, Larysa; Baklanova, Olena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
В статье анализируется влияние формальных экономических институтов на развитие постсоциалистических стран. Акцент делается на необходимости разграничения...
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Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model’s parameters are estimated separately for each of the three different waves of the Bulgarian Integrated Household Survey, each reflecting remarkably different...
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Modes of Foreign Entry under Asymmetric Information about Potential Technology Spillovers
Müller, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
This paper studies the effect of technology spillovers on the entry decision of a multinational enterprise into a foreign market. Two alternative entry modes for a foreign direct investment are considered: Greenfield investment versus acquisition. We find that with quantity competition a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005157511
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Foreign banks in transition countries. To whom do they lend and how are they financed?
De Haas, Ralph; Naaborg, Ilko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We use focused interviews with managers of foreign parent banks and their affiliates in Central Europe and the Baltic States to analyse the small-business lending and internal capital markets of multinational financial institutions. Our approach allows us to complement the standard empirical...
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