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This paper studies asymmetric price responses of individual firms, via daily retail prices of almost all gasoline …
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How much does a nation spend on resources to 'grease the wheels of trade'? To examine this question the Dutch economy is used as an exemplary case as the Netherlands are known as a nation of traders. This image was derived in the seventeenth century from successes in long distance trade,...
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Institutional barriers to entry were removed to a considerable extent in 1996 in the Dutch retail sector. Three years … show a picture of increased speed. The deregulation of the Dutch retail industry seems therefore to have enlarged market …
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through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …
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Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … be expected and respect. Furthermore, our results imply that entrepreneurship is associated with hard work, high incomes …
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We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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contradicts existing theoretical hypotheses which predict that entrepreneurship is pro-cyclical or not cyclical. We discuss …
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models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …
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We model the emergence of organization forms in a game between prospective entrepreneurs. Complementary roles arise endogenously in a way that admits a stable assignment of workers to firms. This contrasts with existing work on job matching, where stability typically requires workers to be...
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We develop a new perspective on the boundary of the firm that is consistent with the empirical observation that the share of entrepreneurs first decreases and then increases in the course of economic development. Existing theory based on transaction costs is difficult to relate to these...
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