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Religion and Entrepreneurship
Audretsch, David B.; Boente, Werner; Tamvada, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
While considerable concern has emerged about the impact of religion on economic development, little is actually known … about how religion impacts the decision making of individuals. This paper examines the influence of religion on the decision … paper finds that religion shapes the entrepreneurial decision. In particular, some religions, such as Islam and Christianity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090454
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Cultural Effects on Inbound Tourism into the USA: A Gravity Approach
Vietze, Christoph - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper we discuss the effects of cultural - and particular religious - factors on tourist flows into the USA as the world largest tourism destination. To estimate this empirically we run an augmented gravity equation. Our results give evidence that the gravity equation is an adequate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090600
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Ready to Leave the Ivory Tower? - Academic Scientists' Appeal to Work in the Private Sector
Fritsch, Michael; Krabel, Stefan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Society, a research institution devoted to basic science. We find that the scientists' evaluations of the attractiveness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964128
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Entrepreneurs' Acceptance of Formal Institutions: A Cross-country Analysis
Freytag, Andreas; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Institutional settings and the resulting incentive structures are crucial for economic development. The type of entrepreneurial activity and the entrepreneurial effort are especially dependent on underlying incentive structures. We argue that institutions with better incentive structures for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973304
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The Shadows of the Past - How Implicit Institutions Influence Entrepreneurship
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper investigates the impact of implicit institutions on the decision to become an entrepreneur. Implicit institutions are here defined as mindsets that have developed as the result of norms and traditions and we expect they will have an influence on risk attitudes and opportunity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979867
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In the name of my parents: Entrepreneurship and the intergenerational transmission of values
Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Mounting empirical evidence shows that kids of self-employed parents are very likely to become entrepreneurs themselves. These findings are often attributed to the intergenerational transmission of parental norms and values. However, many papers in the field are not that explicit about parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686909
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Studying deception without deceiving participants: An experiment of deception experiments
Alberti, Federica; Güth, Werner - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Banning deception in economic experiments does not exclude experiments with participants in the role of experimenters who can gain by deceiving those in the role of participants. We compare treatments with and without possible deception by experimenter-participants to test whether deception...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551531
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A note on the relationship between television viewing and individual happiness
Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In a recently published article, Bruni and Stanca (2008) suggest that television viewing has a negative impact on life satisfaction. In this note we argue that the empirical approach they use (an approach that omits the main effect of TV viewing in life satisfaction) is problematic. We estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509229
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Whose impartiality? An experimental study of veiled stakeholders, impartial spectators and ideal observers
Aguiar, Fernando; Becker, Alice; Miller, Luis - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article defines in a precise manner three different mechanisms to achieve impartiality in distributive justice and studies them experimentally. We consider a first-person procedure, the Rawlsian veil of ignorance, and two third-party procedures, the impartial spectator and the ideal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511328
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On the Evolution of Preferences
Gamba, Astrid - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A common feature of the literature on the evolution of preferences is that evolution favors nonmaterialistic preferences only if preference types are observable at least to some degree. We argue that this result is due to the assumption that in each state of the evolutionary dynamics some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009143374