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This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...
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Entrepreneurship scholarship and policy are based on the myth of firm growth as imperative and the related myth of …. Green growth and sustainable entrepreneurship are exposed as oxymorons. Given the dangers and the impossibility of perpetual … growth, the paper then tries to answer the question of what role entrepreneurship could play in a post-growth society or in …
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: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm … newly introduces the last three to the literature. It then proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …
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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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methodology that combines institutions and human agency into an interdependent system, applying the configuration theory. We argue …
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entrepreneurship is introduced, where individuals can choose not to work, become entrepreneurs, or work in one of the two sectors … entrepreneurship in the United States. …
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I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or informal economy and choose how much to invest in their businesses, taking government policy as given. The government has access to two policy tools: taxes on formal business...
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Entrepreneurship scholars are interested in understanding and describing how entrepreneurs make decisions under … accept Expected Utility Theory (EUT), developed by Savage (1951) and von Neumann and Morgenstern (1953), as a relevant model …
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Do institutions and culture affect environmental values? In this article we analyze 1,041 environmental valuations of 223 wetlands in 38 developing countries, to examine the effect of institutions and culture on environmental values. We assess three dimensions of institutional quality: economic...
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start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … persist in the market, and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage … entrepreneurship where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their …
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