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High Performance in Complex Spatial Systems: A Self-Organizing Mapping Approach with Reference to The Netherlands
Kourtit, Karima; Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255701
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
We extend Lazear’s theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the … commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272604
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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
Praag, C. Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question … answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257287
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Competing Transport Networks
Leij, Marco J. van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
In a circular city model, I consider network design and pricing decisions for asingle fast transport connection that faces competition from a slower but betteraccessible transport mode. To access the fast transport network individuals haveto make complementary trips by slow mode. This fact has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249541
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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad. Results show, first, that one cannot clearly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255585
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From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growth in a Small World
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
Accepted for publication in the <I>Journal of Development Economics</I>.<P> This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration affects firm size and efficiency, norm enforcement, and...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255851
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Inside the Queue
Verhoef, Erik T. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
This paper develops a continuous-time -continuous-place economic model of road trafficcongestion with a bottleneck, based on car-following theory. The model integrates twoarchetype congestion technologies used in the economics literature: 'static flow congestion',originating in the works of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255871
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The Economics of Airport Congestion Pricing
Pels, Eric; Verhoef, Erik - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <I>Journal of Urban Economics</I> (2004). Volume 55, pages 257-277.<P> Conventional economic wisdom suggests that congestion pricing would be an appropriate response to cope with the growing congestion levels currently experienced at many airports....</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255935
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Pricing, Capacity and Long-run Cost Functions for First-best and Second-best Network Problems
Verhoef, Erik T.; Koh, Andrew; Shepherd, Simon - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This paper considers the use of ‘long-run cost functions’ for congested networks in solving second-best network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256078
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Price Differentiation and Discrimination in Transport Networks
Weijde, Adriaan Hendrik van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
three models allow us to consider three different forms of price differentiation and discrimination in networks: by user …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261932