We analyze the distribution of economic activity across space for different types of activity and different levels of … aggregation. Not only is this distribution highly uneven (independently of the type of activity and level of aggregation), it is … also remarkably regular regarding its size distribution (rank-size rule or Zipf’s Law) and regarding its interaction …

distribution free and its sample counterpart is shown to be consistent. For a wide class of CDFs the exact analytical expression of … the distribution of the sample HM index is derived, assuming the two underlying samples to be drawn from the same … distribution. The robustness of the concomitant test statistic is assessed, and four different methods are discussed for applying …

performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …

effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …

performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture … the possible stakeholders in the entrepreneur’s venture. The education distribution of the (local) population may thus … formulate the following proposition: The performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education …