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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

Several surveys on intra-industry dynamics have recently reached the conclusion from a large body of evidence that Gibrat's Law does not hold, i.e., the main finding is that firm growth decreases with firm size. However, almost all of these studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper...

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The Economic Value of Flexibility when there is Disagreement

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

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

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The Political Economy of Bank- and Market Dominance

Perotti, Enrico; Thadden, Ernst Ludwig von - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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Market Liquidity, Investor Participation and Managerial Autonomy: Why do Firms go Private?

Boot, Arnoud W.A.; Gopaian, Radhakrishnan; Thakor, Anjan V. - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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Ordering the Preference Hierarchies for Internal Finance, Bank Loans, Bond and Share Issues

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

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

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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper resulted in an article in Management Science. Volume 59 issue 7, pages 1514-1528. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business...

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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 … commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …

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Spatial Activity and Labour Market Patterns

Russo, Giovanni; Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

The spatial activity patterns of firms in a multi-regional system are closely connected with the structure and evolution of regional labour markets. Based on an extensive data set (cross-section) on commuting flows in Germany, this paper aims to identify the relationship between entrepreneurial...

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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …

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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownership across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000

Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, André van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as theirrelevance for entrepreneurship. Second … (uncertaintyavoidance) may have a diverging impact on entrepreneurship. Possibly, a climate of uncertainty avoidancein large organizations …, suggesting that risingopportunity costs of entrepreneurship are the dominant perception in this cultural environment. In a …

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