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Gibrat's Law and the Firm Size / Firm Growth Relationship in Italian Services

Piergiovanni, R.; Santarelli, E.; Klomp, L.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper - in search of further evidence supporting the results recently … obtained for a large sample of Dutch firms in the hospitality industry - we examine whether the assumption that growth rates … are independent of firm size can be rejected for the services, as it has been for manufacturing, also in the case of Italy …

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Determinants of Enterprise restructuring in Transition: Description of a Survey in Russian Industry

Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

To achieve sustainable economic growth in transition countries, it is crucial that enterpriseperformance is improved. However, it is not a priori clear which factors are essential for this. ForRussia, data to investigate the potential determinants of enterprise performance is scarce.Therefore,...

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The Spatial-Institutional Architecture of Firms’ Innovative Behaviour

Vaz, Eric de Noronha; Vaz, Teresa de Noronha; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

, while knowledge often surpasses the firms’ internal mechanisms, because, frequently, it is a spatially endogenous … database comprises an extensive set of Portuguese innovative firms, spatially identified and able to engage in spatial …

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Informal Sector in Developed and less Developed Countries: A Literature Survey

Gerxhani, Klarita - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

The main goal of this study is two-fold: (1) to provide a general overview of thecontributions to the literature on the informal sector, with a special focus on the PublicChoice approach; and (2) to compare these contributions across two institutionallydifferent types of countries: developed and...

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For Better and for Worse - How Unpaid Bride Wealth provides Security

Hoogeveen, Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

The obligation to pay bride wealth at marriage is usually associated with thecontinuation of the lineage or considered a compensation for the loss of laborfor the family that provides the bride. In this paper a different interpretationis advanced. The obligation to pay of bride wealth is seen as...

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Tax Evasion and the Source of Income

Gërxhani, Klarita; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <Journal of Economic Psychology</I> (2006). Volume 27, issue 3, pages 402-422.<P> A series of experiments in Albania and the Netherlands give us the opportunity to compare behavioral patterns related to tax evasion. Subjects have to decide between a random 'registered' income,...</p></journal>

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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience

Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...

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How important are Institutions for Growth in Transition Countries?

Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment (FDI), the latter in turnbeing important for the...

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Risk Pooling through Transfers in Rural Ethiopia

Pan, Lei - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

It is often assumed that transfers received from governments, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), friends and relatives help rural households to pool risk. In this paper I investigate two functions of transfers in Ethiopia: risk pooling and income redistribution. Unlike most of the literature...

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Risk Sharing in Labour Markets

Bigsten, Arne; Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

insurance to employers: when firms are hit by temporary shocks the effect on profits is cushioned by risk sharing with workers …

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