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Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700543

Public policy for start-up entrepreneurship with venture capital and bank finance

Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo - 2003

This paper proposes and analyses a model of start-up investment. Innovative entrepreneurs are commercially inexperienced and can benefit from venture capital support. Only part of them succeed in matching with a venture capitalist while the rest must resort to standard bank finance. We consider...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514147

Awards in economics : towards a new field of inquiry

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009

. First steps towards integrating awards into economic theory are undertaken. -- Awards ; non-monetary incentives ; economics …Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards …. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics …

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What can economists learn from happiness research?

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001

happiness research is able to contribute important insights for economics. We report how the economic variables income … some of the consequences for economic policy and for economic theory. …

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Optimal asset allocation with factor models for large portfolios

Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor); … - 2008

This paper characterizes the asymptotic behaviour, as the number of assets gets arbitrarily large, of the portfolio weights for the class of tangency portfolios belonging to the Markowitz paradigm. It is assumed that the joint distribution of asset returns is characterized by a general factor...

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Panel unit root tests in the presence of a multifactor error structure

Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor); … - 2008

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Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books

Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2021

Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period...

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Public policy for venture capital

Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo - 2001

This paper proposes a simple partial equilibrium model to investigate the effects of government policy on venture capital backed investments. Giving up an alternative career, entrepreneurs focus their effort on a single, high risk venture each. Venture capitalists acquire an equity stake and...

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Recent trends in co-authorship in economics : evidence from RePEc

Rath, Katharina; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2015

This articles investigates the recent trends in co-authorship in economics. Using data from more than 700.000 journal …

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Simply a matter of luck & looks? : predicting elections when both the world economy and the psychology of faces count

Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - 2014

Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...

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