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Mobile phones and Mozambique farmers : less asymmetric information and more trader competition?
Zant, Wouter - 2018
We measure the impact of search costs on farmers' and traders' transaction prices in Mozambique by investigating to what extent the introduction of mobile phones has affected the margin between recorded maize producer and retail market prices, and by exploring if producers or traders benefit...
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Small firms, entrepreneurship and economic growth
Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1995
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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016
Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The … success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at … background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship …
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Entrepreneurial moral hazard in income insurance
Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2011
We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....
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Firm formation with complementarities : the role of the entrepreneur
Roessler, Christian; Koellinger, Philipp - 2011
We model entrepreneurship and the emergence of firms as a result of simultaneous bidding for labor services among …
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The entrepreneurial adjustment process in disequilibrium
Burke, Andrew; Stel, Adriaan J. van - 2009
The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in …
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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework
Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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Education and entrepreneurial choice : an instrumental variables analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: November 2010
the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are discussed. …
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Spatial activity and labour market patterns
Russo, Giovanni; Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter - 2005
The spatial activity patterns of firms in a multi-regional system are closely connected with the structure and evolution of regional labour markets. Based on an extensive data set (cross-section) on commuting flows in Germany, this paper aims to identify the relationship between entrepreneurial...
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Modelling entrepreneurship
Bosma, Niels; Wit, Gerrit de; Carree, Martin Anthony - 2003
Two approaches can be distinguished with respect to modelling entrepreneurship: (i) the approachfocusing on the net …
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