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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008

entrepreneurship. Here, we investigate analytically and quantitatively the trade-off between transaction costs saved and creative …

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Do entrepreneurs matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship, and economic development : growth dynamics with two elites

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005

entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …

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Religion in Economic History : A Survey

Becker, Sascha O. - 2020

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … Catholic Church in European economic history since the medieval period. Taking advantage of newly digitized data and advanced … leading role in the interconnection between religion and economic history. Third, many socioeconomic factors matter in the …

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Entrepreneurial innovation and sustained long-run growth without weak or strong scale effects

Grossmann, Volker - 2008

R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth (strong scale effect) or the level of per capita income (weak scale effect), with far-reaching policy implications. However, for modern times there is little empirical support for...

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Education Promoted Secularization

Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014

Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...

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Protestantism and education: Reading (the bible) and other skills

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2011

skills: reading, numeracy, essay writing and Swiss history. We develop an estimation strategy to examine whether the impact …

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How to promote R&D-based growth? : public education expenditure on scientists and engineers versus R&D subsidies

Grossmann, Volker - 2004

Empirical evidence suggests that positive externalities from R&D exceed negative ones. According to conventional wisdom, this calls for R&D subsidies. This paper develops a quality-ladder growth model with overlapping generations which evaluates the positive and normative implications of R&D...

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Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

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iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; … - 2012

This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database … unique source for micro-regional empirical research in economic history, enabling analyses of the importance of such factors …

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