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The Political Economy of Financial Systems

Haber, Stephen; Perotti, Enrico - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This survey reviews the literature on the political economy of financial structure, broadly defined to include the size of capital markets and banking systems as well as the distribution of access to external finance across firms. The theoretical literature on the institutional basis for...

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship … program was offered to students at one location of a school but not at another location of the same school. Location choice … show that the program does not have the intended effects: the effect on students’ self-assessed entrepreneurial skills is …

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The Political Economy of Bank- and Market Dominance

Perotti, Enrico; Thadden, Ernst Ludwig von - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Legislation affects corporate governance and the return to human and financial capital. We allow the preference of a political majority to determine both the governance structure and the extent of labor rents. In a society where median voters have relatively more at stake in the form of human...

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The Economic Value of Flexibility when there is Disagreement

Boot, Arnoud W.A.; Thakor, Anjan V. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

We develop an economic theory of “flexibility”, which we interpret as the discretion or ability to make a decision that others disagree with. We show that flexibility is essentially an option for the decisionmaker, and can be valued as such. The value of the flexibility option is decreasing...

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Ordering the Preference Hierarchies for Internal Finance, Bank Loans, Bond and Share Issues

Haan, Leo de; Hinloopen, Jeroen - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

We estimate the incremental financing decision for a sample of some 150 Dutch companies for the years 1984 through 1997, thereby distinguishing internal finance and three types of external finance: bank borrowing, bond issues and share issues. First, we estimate a multinomial logit model which...

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Market Liquidity, Investor Participation and Managerial Autonomy: Why do Firms go Private?

Boot, Arnoud W.A.; Gopaian, Radhakrishnan; Thakor, Anjan V. - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

We analyze a publicly-traded firm's decision to stay public or go private when managerial autonomy from shareholder intervention affects the supply of productive inputs by management. We show that both the advantage and the disadvantage of public ownership relative to private ownership lie in...

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Transition

Aidis, Ruta - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

address the issue of entrepreneurship in two distinct ways: a) as it has historically developed within the field of economics … and b) as it develops in the transitional context. In contrast to advanced western economies, productive entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship for transition countries. By means of a literature survey, we further present the main characteristics of …

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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...

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Initial Capital Constraints hinder Entrepreneurial Venture Performance

Praag, Mirjam van; Wit, Gerrit de; Bosma, Niels - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This article investigates empirically whether and to what extent initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial performance once the venture has been started. Prior empirical research in this area could investigate this issue only indirectly by lack of data. The key contribution of this...

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Total Factor Productivity and the Role of Entrepreneurship

Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute

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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