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Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in Transition Economies

Aleksynska, Mariya; Gaisford, James; Kerr, William - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Recent studies of developing countries have suggested that the effectiveness of foreign direct investment (FDI) as spur to econo mic growth depends on the availability of "human capital" or skilled labour in a host country. In other words, it is primarily the synergy between FDI and human...

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A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms

Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...

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The return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle

Hyytinen, Ari; Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Toivanen, Otto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The returns to entrepreneurship are monetary and non-monetary. We offer new evidence on these returns using a large …

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The Underground Economy in a Matching Model of Endogenous Growth

Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector. Three problems can thus be simultaneously accounted for: (i) the persistence of underground economy, (ii) the ambiguous relationships between underground employment and unemployment, and...

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Corridors, Coordination and the Entrepreneurial Theory of the Market Process

Boettke, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Daniel Klein (Klein 1997, Klein and Orsborn 2009 and Klein and Briggeman forthcoming) and Israel Kirzner (forthcoming) have been engaged in a debate concerning how economists should understand and use the terms “coordination” and “economic goodness”. Klein and Briggeman (forthcoming)...

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Entrepreneurship and its Link to Corruption: Assessment with the Most Recent World and Country-Group Data

Driouchi, Ahmed; Gamar, Alae - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Entrepreneurship is an important intangible asset of nations. The relatively recent progress in its measurement, mainly … with the Global Entrepreneurship Development Index (GEDI), suggests that previous questions related to its determinants and … effect of corruption reduction on GEDI and thus the positive relationship between an intangible good that is entrepreneurship …

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The Culture of Entrepreneurship

Chakraborty, Shankha; Thompson, Jon; Yehoue, Etienne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We study the cultural process through which a society inculcates an entrepreneurial spirit. People work for a guaranteed wage or operate a firm whose return depends on business expertise. The latter is culturally acquired, within the family or outside, and people may choose an occupation...

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Corruption, Pricing of Public Services and Entrepreneurship in Economies with Leakage

Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Mitra, Siddhartha; Banerjee, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

for entrepreneurship by maximizing the welfare of the economy. We show that the corruption persists at the equilibrium …

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Virtue as Competence in the Entrepreneurial Society

Karlson, Nils; Fergin, Elina - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

. Moreover, to a certain degree virtues are learnt through the practice of <p> entrepreneurship. Due to their importance, though …

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The Non-neutrality of Corporate Tax: An Entrepreneurial Perspective

Filoso, Valerio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

entrepreneurship is fully taken into account, corporate taxation appears clearly as a direct tax on market adjustments and as an …

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