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Does venture capital investment spur employment growth?
Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2003
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role … models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial …
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Financing entrepreneurial firms in Europe : facts, issues, and research agenda
Bottazzi, Laura; Da Rin, Marco - 2003
During the latter part of the 1990s the introduction of the euro, the dramatic increase in the supply of venture capital in most EU countries, and the creation of several new equity markets targeted at innovative firms have dramatically transformed the financing prospects of European...
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Taxation of a venture capitalist with a portfolio of firms
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2002
Venture capitalists not only finance but also advise and thereby add value to young innovative firms. The prospects of venture capital backed firms thus depend on joint efforts of entrepreneurs and informed venture capitalists, and are subject to double moral hazard. In financing a portfolio of...
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Comparative venture capital governance : private versus labour sponsored venture capital funds
Cumming, Douglas J.; MacIntosh, Jeffrey G. - 2003
investee firms per fund) of private funds versus LSVCCs; and (4) the performance of LSVCCs relative to other types of venture …
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Repeated selection with heterogenous individuals and relative age effects
Dawid, Herbert; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2012
determinant for performance differentials within cohorts. We find that the optimal policy is pro-competitive at later selection … of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … occur at early stages, where selection is either counter-competitive (i.e. individuals with low skill signals are selected …
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Political economists are neither selfish nor indoctrinated
Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2001
particular behavior of economists can be explained by a selection effect. …
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Genetic distance and international migrant selection
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2015 - This version: July 2015
migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 …
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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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Efficiency-morality trade-offs in repugnant transactions : a choice experiment
Elías, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2016
Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...
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Will increased wages reduce shortage of nurses? : a panel data analysis of nurses' labour supply
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Baltagi, Badi H.; Holmås, Tor Helge - 2002
heterogeneity, sample selection and instrumenting for possible endogeneity is 0.21. Individual and institutional features are …
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