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Strategic versus Financial Investors: The Role of Strategic Objectives in Financial Contracting

Arping, Stefan; Falconieri, Sonia - Tinbergen Institute

Strategic investors, such as corporate venture capitalists, engage in the financing of start-up firms to complement their core businesses and to facilitate the internalization of externalities. We argue that while strategic objectives make it more worthwhile for an investor to elicit high...

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Grow rich while you sleep: Selection in Experiments with Voluntary Participation

Gautier, Pieter; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

We use data from a promotion campaign of NH-Hoteles to study self-selection of participants in a gift-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of money for a stay in one of 36 hotels in Belgium and the Netherlands. The data allow us to distinguish...

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Subsidizing Enjoyable Education

Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

The article is forthcoming in <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VFD-4PNM471-3&_user=499884&_coverDate=09%2F15%2F2007&_alid=770199288&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_cdi=6008&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_ct=1&_acct=C000024499&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=499884&md5=8492c97b78d795d5deec06a94b66422d">Labour Economics</A>.<p><P>

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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy's best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a...

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Self-Selection and the Power of Incentive Schemes: An Experimental Study

Vyrastekova, Jana; Onderstal, Sander; Koning, Pierre - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

We examine how self-selection of workers into firms depends on the power of the firms' incentive schemes and how it affects the performance of firms that increase the power of the incentive schemes. In a laboratory experiment, we let subjects choose between (low-powered) team incentives and...

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Do Experts incorporate Statistical Model Forecasts and should they?

Legerstee, Rianne; Franses, Philip Hans; Paap, Richard - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

Experts can rely on statistical model forecasts when creating their own forecasts. Usually it is not known what experts actually do. In this paper we focus on three questions, which we try to answer given the availability of expert forecasts and model forecasts. First, is the expert forecast...

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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using …

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Teenage Motherhood and Long-run Outcomes in South Africa

Gustafsson, Siv; Worku, Seble - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Teenage motherhood is very high in South Africa. In 2001, 55 per thousand African South African women and 82 per thousand Coloured South African women were teenage mothers as compared to 8 among Indian South Africans and 3 among White South African women. In this paper we use the South African...

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Health and Work of the Elderly

Lindeboom, Maarten; Kerkhofs, Marcel - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

This paper aims to exp1ore the interre1ation between hea1th and work decisions of e1der1y workers, taking the various ways in which hea1th and work can influence each other exp1icitly into account. For this, two issues are of re1evance. Se1f-assessed health measures are usually at hand in...

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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial … endogeneity is really present, whether it matters and whether the selected instruments make sense. Using Bayesian methods, we find … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …

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