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Unraveling the shift to the entrepreneurial economy

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2011 - Current version: April 2011

to suggest some of the factors leading to this shift and implications for public policy. In particular, we find that a … rethinking of the public policy approach. Rather than the focus of directly and exclusively on promoting startups and SMEs, it … may be that the current approach to entrepreneurship policy is misguided. The priority should not be on entrepreneurship …

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Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship

Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2009 - Current version: May 2009

Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present paper it is shown that – when this variable is added...

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...

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Follow the money : does the financial sector intermediate natural resource windfalls?

Beck, Thorsten; Poelhekke, Steven - 2017 - This version: 18 February 2017

The need to absorb windfalls gains and manage them appropriately has been discussed extensively by academics and policy …

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Sovereign risk and macroeconomic fluctuations in an emerging market economy

Kirchner, Markus; Rieth, Malte - 2010

economies that are subject to sovereign risk. In terms of policy implications, counterfactual experiments show that both more … active monetary policy and stronger fiscal feedbacks from debt on taxes can lead to less volatile inflation and debt dynamics …

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On taxation in a two-sector endogenous growth model with endogenous labor supply

Hek, Paul A. de - 2003

This paper examines the effects of taxation on long-run growthin a two-sector endogenous growth model with (i) physical capitalas an input in the education sector and (ii) leisure as anadditional argument in the utility function. The analysis of theeffects of taxation - including income...

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Bidding for nothing? : the pitfalls of overly neutral framing

Dürsch, Peter; Müller-Seeger, Julia - 2014

what they think they are tasked with in the experiment. Adding a second auction that has a context drastically reduces the …

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Discretionary authority and prioritizing in government agencies

Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter; Tóth, Lukás; Tuinstra, Jan - 2015

, but thereby also benefits less from the head's expertise. Antitrust authorities serve as one illustration of policy …

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Positional power in hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2007

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in hierarchies. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare...

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Axiomatizations of a positional power score and measure for hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2008

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the actors. While such an analysis informs us about...

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