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The Institutions of Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Panel Data

Nyström, Kristina - Ratioinstitutet - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of entrepreneurship across countries. The paper investigates the … relationship between the institutional setting, in terms of economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, as measured by self … to increase entrepreneurship. <p …

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Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - Ratioinstitutet - 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 …

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Taxation, Labor Market Policy and High-Impact Entrepreneurship

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

Public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive and high-impact entrepreneurship. High …-impact entrepreneurship prospers when knowledge is successfully generated and exploited in the economy. This process depends on complementary …-impact entrepreneurship. …

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Firm Growth, Institutions and Structural Transformation

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

This essay argues that the economic contribution of certain firms – be they small, young or rapidly growing – has to be understood in a broader context of creative destruction. Growth of some firms requires contraction and exit of some other firms to free up resources that can be reallocated...

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Property Rights and Economic Growth

Rosenberg, Nathan - Ratioinstitutet - 2003

My main purpose is to connect the issue of property rights to the set of questions concerning economic growth and the long-term determinants of the improvements in material well-being. To anticipate what will be my main conclusion, it is that property rights and economic growth are not...

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Entreprenörskap och egenfinansiering — om den privata förmögenhetsbildningens teoretiska och praktiska betydelse för entreprenörskapets omfattning

Johnsson, Richard - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

Egenfinansieringen har stor betydelse för om människor ska ta steget till att bli entreprenörer. Det har fastslagits i en rad empiriska studier och ett välkänt forskningsresultat. Det är emellertid inte lika klart hur den teoretiska förklaringen till detta empiriska samband ser ut. De...

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Israel Kirzner on Coordination and Discovery

Klein, Daniel B.; Briggeman, Jason - Ratioinstitutet - 2008

Israel Kirzner has been one of the leaders in fashioning an Austrian school of economics. In his rendering of the Austrian school, one finds a marriage between Friedrich Hayek’s discourse with Ludwig von Mises’s deductive, praxeological image of science — a marriage that seems to us...

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Emergence of Firms: A Sociogeographic Demand Side Perspective

Hellerstedt, Karin; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

geography and population ecology to the entrepreneurship literature as to present a theoretical framework that captures both …

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Succession in Private Firms as an Entrepreneurial Process – A Review and Suggestions of New Research avenues

Wennberg, Karl; Nordqvist, Mattias; Bau, Massimo; … - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

to integrate entrepreneurship and family business research. We provide a comprehensive literature review of succession … literatures on entrepreneurship, family firms, and governance in private firms. The paper explores theoretical, conceptual, and … methodological ways of integrating these findings into the research on entrepreneurship and family business. …

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Competence in Health Care - An Industrial Systems Analysis Using Competence Bloc Theory to Compare European and US Health Care

Eliasson, Gunnar; Eliasson, Åsa - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

), discouraging innovative product competition and entrepreneurship. The larger part of cost escalation in US health care can be …

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