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Corruption Beyond the Glass Ceiling : Do Women Entrepreneurs Perceive Corruption Differently?
Goel, Rajeev K. - 2019
Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey information at the firm level; and (c) employing a large sample...
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Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous …
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Rising to the Challenge : Bayesian Estimation and Forecasting Techniques for Macroeconomic Agent-Based Models
Delli Gatti, Domenico - 2019
. Second, we propose a method to forecast aggregate time series using data obtained from the simulation of an ABM. We apply our …
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Adaptive Agents May Be Smarter than You Think : Unbiasedness in Adaptive Expectations
Palestrini, Antonio; Gallegati, Mauro; Delli Gatti, Domenico - 2021
Agents forming adaptive expectations generally make systematic mistakes. This characterization has fostered the rejection of adaptive expectations in macroeconomics. Experimental evidence, however, shows that in complex environments human subjects frequently rely on adaptive heuristics –...
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Taxing Moral Agents
Muñoz Sobrado, Esteban - 2022
Experimental and empirical findings suggest that non-pecuniary motivations play a significant role as determinants of taxpayers’ decision to comply with the tax authority and shape their perceptions and assessment of the tax code. By contrast, the canonical optimal income taxation model...
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Breaking Bad : Supply Chain Disruptions in a Streamlined Agent Based Model
Delli Gatti, Domenico; Grugni, Elisa - 2021
We explore the macro-financial consequences of the disruption of a supply chain in an agent based framework characterized by two networks, a credit network connecting banks and firms and a production network connecting upstream and down-stream firms. We consider two scenarios. In the first one,...
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Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments
Aryal, Gaurab - 2020
The social and the private returns to education differ when education can increase productivity, and also be used to signal productivity. We show how instrumental variables can be used to separately identify and estimate the social and private returns to education within the employer learning...
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A General Equilibrium Theory of Occupational Choice Under Optimistic Beliefs About Entrepreneurial Ability
Dell'Era, Michele - 2019
number of entrepreneurs, and makes entrepreneurs worse off. We calibrate the model to match U.S. manufacturing data. This … to entrepreneurship, and output. The calibration shows that optimism can explain the empirical puzzle of the low mean … returns to entrepreneurship compared to average wages …
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Credit Market Imperfection, Lack of Entrepreneurs and Capital Outflow from a Developing Economy
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained … due to presence/absence of entrepreneurs, i.e., low price of capital in autarky may reflect lack of demand for credit due … to scarcity of entrepreneurs and not capital abundance and eventually may lead to capital outflow from a capital scarce …
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Identity and entrepreneurship
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - 2009
We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual's identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual's socialization. This could be...
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