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Keeping it simple: financial literacy and rules of thumb

Drexler, Alejandro; Fischer, Gregory; Schoar, Antoinette - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Individuals and business owners engage in an increasingly complex array of financial decisions that are critical for their success and well-being. Yet a growing literature documents that in both developed and developing countries, a large fraction of the population is unprepared to make these...

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Does cultural diversity help innovation in cities: evidence from London firms

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

London is one of the world’s major cities, and one of its most diverse. London’s cultural diversity is widely seen as a social asset, but there is little hard evidence on its importance for the city’s businesses. Theory and evidence suggest various links between urban cultural diversity...

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Entrepreneurship: can the Jack-of-all-trades attitude be acquired?

Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Entrepreneurs are believed to be the ultimate engine of modern economic systems. Yet, the study of entrepreneurship … entrepreneur. This suggests that, if the JAT Attitude matters for entrepreneurship, it is an innate and time-invariant individual …

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International financial integration and entrepreneurship

Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

which international financial integration can affect entrepreneurship (a foreign direct investment channel and a capital …

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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance: findings from English firms and cities 2008-9

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...

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Homeownerhip and entrepreneurship

Bracke, Philippe; Hilber, Christian; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

We study the link between homeownership and entrepreneurship by exploiting the longitudinal dimension of the British …

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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

empirical findings and identifies avenues for future research. …

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Does self-employment measure entrepreneurship? evidence from Great Britain

Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative …

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Foreign direct investment and domestic entrepreneurship: blessing or curse?

Estrin, Saul; Hülya Danakol, Seçil; Reynolds, Paul; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra-industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …

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Cultural diversity, innovation and entrepreneurship: firm-level evidence from London

Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

A growing body of research is making links between diversity and the economic performance of cities and regions. Most … cultural diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sales strategies in London businesses between 2005 and 2007. London is … entrepreneurship. Overall, the results provide some support for claims that diversity is an economic asset, as well as a social benefit. …

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