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Productivity Dynamics and the Role of “Big-Box” Entrants in Retailing
Maican, Florin; Orth, Matilda - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
use a dynamic model to measure the impact of large entrants on productivity, allowing for a controlled productivity …, we find that incumbents' productivity increase after large entry and that the magnitude of the increase declines with the … productivity of incumbents. Our findings highlight that large entrants play a crucial role in driving productivity growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098215
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On the Behavioral and Rational Foundation of Economic Theory
Simon, Herbert - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983
Existing uncertainties about the correct explanations for economic growth and business cycles cannot be settled by aggregative analysis within the neoclassical framework. Current disputes in theory rest largely on ad hoc, casually empirical, assumptions about departures from perfect rationality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019048
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Risk Aversion Relates to Cognitive Ability: Fact or Fiction?
Andersson, Ola; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wengström, Erik; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
Recent experimental studies suggest that risk aversion is negatively related to cognitive ability. In this paper we report evidence that this relation might be spurious. We recruit a large subject pool drawn from the general Danish population for our experiment. By presenting subjects with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729196
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Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self-employment, making it a somewhat dubious proxy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511660
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On the Econometric Analysis of Production When There Are No Output Data
Mellander, Erik; Ysander, Bengt-Christer - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
factor demand and on productivity development. Moreover, the system of share equations can be generalized to allow for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684447
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Household Market and Nonmarket Activities (HUS) – A Pilot Study
Klevmarken, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1982
Economic analysis of household micro behavior, data collection for a longitudinal data base and development of statistical methods for collection and analysis of micro data are the three general purposes of the HUS-project. A pilot study was carried out in 1981/82. It was designed to compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684468
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Collection Data for Micro Analysis. Experiences from the HUS-Pilot Study
Klevmarken, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684534
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Forestalling the Demise of Empirical Economics: The Role of Microdata in Labor Economics Research
Stafford, Frank - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1984
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818359
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Potentials and Pitfalls of Panel Data: The Case of Job Mobility
Björklund, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818383
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Comparative Keynesian Dynamics
Day, Richard A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1984
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818397