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The influence of start-up motivation on entrepreneurial performance
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander; Stier, Claudia - 2022
entrepreneurial development. In our analysis, we examine a broad range of business outcomes including survival and income, as well as … business expansion activities, while career ambition is pos- itively associated with survival, income, and the probability of …
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Self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance of start-ups
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander; Rodríguez, Daniel; … - 2023
business outcomes up to 19 months after business creation. Outcomes include start-up survival and entrepreneurial income, as … important positive effects of high scores of self-efficacy on start-up survival and entrepreneurial income, which become even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013493905
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What makes an employer?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2019
to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival … and the survival as an employer in the same direction, we show that none of the personality traits affect the two outcomes … in the same way. Some traits are only relevant for survival as an employer but do not influence the hiring decision …
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Savings goal calendars as soft commitment devices : evidence from small business owners in Uganda
Grohmann, Antonia; Lakemann, Tabea; Seitz, Helke - 2020
This study examines the effect of a soft commitment device in the form of a savings goal calendar on savings for small business owners in Kampala, Uganda. We run a randomized controlled trial (RCT) under which the treatment group receives a calendar designed to set savings goals and to make a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012384567
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Face mask use and physical distancing before and after mandatory masking : no evidence on risk compensation in public waiting lines
Seres, Gyula; Balleyer, Anna; Cerutti, Nicola; … - 2021
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the introduction of mandatory face mask usage triggered a heated debate. A major point of debate is whether community use of masks creates a false sense of security that would diminish physical distancing, counteracting any potential direct benefit from masking. We...
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Non-additivity of subjective expectations over different time intervals
Haan, Peter; Sun, Chen; Sunde, Uwe; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2022
We examine the additivity of stock-market expectations over different time intervals. When asked about a ten-year interval, survey respondents expect a stock-price change that is not equal to, but closer to zero than, the sum of their expectations over two shorter time intervals that cover the...
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Occupational sex segregation and management-level wages in Germany : what role does firm size play?
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2012
The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...
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Firm's evaluation of location quality : evidence from East Germany
Eickelpasch, Alexander; Hirte, Georg; Stephan, Andreas - 2015
Our study provides evidence for firms' evaluation of location quality. We use a 2004 survey of 6,000 East German firms that contained questions on the importance and assessment of 15 different location factors ranging from closeness to customers and suppliers, transport infrastructure, and...
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Clustering properties of merger waves : space, time or industry?
Szücs, Florian - 2013
We study the degree of agglomeration of acquisition activity within clusters of temporal, geographic and industrial proximity based on almost 600,000 individual transactions. The findings indicate that significant clustering occurs in time and across industries, while the results on geographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189400
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Political corruption in the execution of public contracts
Chiappinelli, Olga - 2016
This paper presents a novel theory of corruption in public procurement. It considers an agency setting of contract execution where the principal is a politician who can commit to a contract auditing policy. It is found that a benevolent politician, by choosing a sufficiently strict auditing,...
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