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Market Power in Bilateral Oligopoly Markets with Nonexpandable Infrastructures

Funaki, Yukihiko; Houba, Harold; Motchenkova, Evgenia - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

We consider price-fee competition in bilateral oligopolies with perfectly-divisible goods, non-expandable infrastructures, concentrated agents on both sides, and constant marginal costs. We define and characterize stable market outcomes. Buyers exclusively trade with the supplier with whom they...

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Asymmetric Nash Solutions in the River Sharing Problem

Houba, Harold; Laan, Gerard van der; Zeng, Yuyu - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in Strategic Behavior and the Environment, 2014, 4, 321-360. We study multiple agents along a general river structure that is expressed by a geography matrix and who have access to limited local resources, quasi-linear preferences over water and...

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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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It's the Opportunity Cost, stupid! How Self-Employment responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in selfemploymentrather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on theopportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on income...

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Risk Attitudes and Profits among Small Enterprises in Nigeria

Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...

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Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees

Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

See also the publication in Small Business Economics (2013), 40(3), 651-670. Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e....

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