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Creating firms for a new century : determinants of firm creation around 1900

Baten, Jörg - 2003

Southwest Germany around 1900. Agglomeration effects and earlier firm creations stimulate current firm creation. In addition, a …

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Online versus offline : which networks spur protests?

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2022

Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...

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High-technology entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2013

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

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The extension of clusters : difference-in-differences evidence from the Bavarian state-wide cluster policy

Falck, Oliver (contributor); Heblich, Stephan (contributor); … - 2008

If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the Cluster Initiativeʺ introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was...

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Regional productivity network in the EU

Mastromarco, Camilla; Serlenga, Laura; Shin, Yongcheol - 2023

We develop a unified stochastic frontier model which controls for the local spatial correlation and the global factor dependence as well as parameter heterogeneity, simultaneously. We then propose the regional productivity network analysis to examine the diffusion impacts of the capital...

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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries

Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020

, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …

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Sports clubs and populism : quasi-experimental evidence from German cities

Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023

Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are booming in cities with successful soccer teams which pass the...

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The old-boy network and the quality of entrepreneurs

Bac, Mehmet; Inci, Eren - 2010

We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs' types. Network membership is observable, which allows lenders to offer different interest rates to...

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The biological standard of living in the two Germanies

Komlos, John; Kriwy, Peter - 2001

proclamations of a classlesssociety, there were substantial differences in physical stature in East-Germany.Social differences in …

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Political socialization in flux? : linking family non-intactness during childhood to adult civic engagement

Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2012

Over the last several decades, there has been a widespread decrease in civic engagement coinciding with a breakdown in traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000), however, none of the major declines in civic...

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