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Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information, and Ownership in the Innovation Process
Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
where adverse selection problems between entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and incumbents are present. We show that as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419514
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Like What You Like or Like What Others Like? Conformity and Peer Effects on Facebook
Egebark, Johan; Ekström, Mathias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
Users of the social networking service Facebook have the possibility to post status updates for their friends to read. In turn, friends may react to these short messages by writing comments or by pressing a Like button to show their appreciation. Making use of five Swedish accounts, we set up a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818392
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Israel M. Kirzner: An Outstanding Austrian Contributor to the Economics of Entrepreneurship
Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus; Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. In this essay, we present and evaluate his main contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship. The focus is on how Kirzner defines the entrepreneurial function. In order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645371
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The Alert and Creative Entrepreneur: A Clarification
Kirzner, Israel M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
” and “Kirznerian” entrepreneurs is flawed. He also argues that his understanding of the market process (set in motion by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645376
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Entrepreneurial Commercialization Choices and the Interaction between IPR and Competition Policy
Gans, Joshua S.; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property … protection makes it more likely that entrepreneurs will commercialize by cooperating with incumbents rather than competing with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399310
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Institutions for the Selection of Entrepreneurs: Implications for Economic Growth and Financial Crises
Pelikan, Pavel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
entrepreneurs and how these actions depend upon the prevailing institutions. While institutions have extensively been examined for … their influences upon the freedoms and the incentives of entrepreneurs, and thereby upon the level of employment of … resources, this paper examines their influences upon the selection of entrepreneurs, and thereby upon the efficiency of that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190640
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Allocation of Economic Competence in Teams: A Comparative Institutional Analysis
Pelikan, Pavel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997
Attention is called to a little explored scarce resource, termed 'economic competence', which combines features of human capital and bounded rationality, and causes a singularity in resource-allocation in society. The performance of each economy is shown to strongly depend on how this resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419543
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Lecture Notes on International Trade and Imperfect Competition.
Venables, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
These notes discuss some of the main results and models from the theory of international trade under imperfect competition. They are necessairy both selective and superficial. Multinationals are conspicuous by their absence, and the reader is referred to Markusen (1995) for a recent survey. Up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780372
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Lecture Notes on International Trade and Imperfect Competition
Venables, Anthony - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
These notes discuss some of the main results and models from the theory of international trade under imperfect competition. They are necessairy both selective and superficial. Multinationals are conspicuous by their absence, and the reader is referred to Markusen (1995) for a recent survey. Up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600195
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Oil Prices and Economic Stability: The Macroeconomic Impact of Oil Price Shocks on the Swedish Economy
Ysander, Bengt-Christer - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1981
In these simulation experiments for the Swedish economy, the impact of a future oil price shock was measured in terms of the stabilization policies required, and the possibility was evaluated of insuring against such price shocks by way of a gradually increasing oil tax.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684496