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Initial luck, status-seeking and snowballs lead to corporate success and failure : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Industrial Organization, March 2004

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

Corporate success stories often resemble a snowball. We show how initial luck in hiring talented people, the resulting technological advantage, superior corporate culture, and statusseeking by workers and by consumers can make small initial differences generate large differences over time.

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Entrepreneurship, economic risks, and risk insurance in the welfare state : results with OECD data 1978-93

Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000

shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and … labor risk is found to be statistically significant and detrimental to entrepreneurship. The crowding-out effect of public … production of private goods on entrepreneurship dominates the crowding-in effect of public production of public goods in the OECD …

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Enterprise formation and labor market institutions

Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2000

The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...

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Entrepreneurship in a unionised economy

Leppämäki, Mikko; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000

labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated … numerically. The main result is that an increase in union power reduces the equilibrium rate of entrepreneurship and reduces the …

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Tax neutrality: illusion or reality? : the case of entrepreneurship

Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); … - 2008

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Imperfect transmission of tacit knowledge and other barriers to entrepreneurship

Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007

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Nordic dual income taxation of entrepreneurs

Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); Kari, Seppo (contributor); … - 2005

The paper shows how entrepreneurial taxes interact with the career choice of individuals, the quality of entrepreneurs, and their effort and investments. It is particularly relevant to differentiate the early effects on start-up enterprises with substantial uncertainty from the tax effects on...

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