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hypothesis that micro and small businesses in Europe use different strategies for their growth. We run a series of econometric …
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This paper analyzes the role of institutions in price dispersion among cities in the European region in the 1996-2009 period. An overview of the literature on the border effect reveals that the role of institutions is completely neglected. Using the Worldwide Governance Indicators as explanatory...
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The current macro-economic and financial conditions remain extremely challenging for the European insurance sector. Under the ongoing low yield environment insurers are changing their business models and looking for new investment and business opportunities to improve their profitability and the...
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We survey the empirical evidence on corporate survival and its determinants in European emerging markets. We demonstrate that (i) institutional quality is a significant preventive factor for firm survival in all sectors of the economy, which holds for small, medium and large firms alike. On the...
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-fits-all regulation is harmful for efficient operations of cooperative banks in Europe. …
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In this paper, we traced the survival status of 94,401 small businesses in 17 European emerging markets from 2007-2017 and empirically examined the determinants of their survival, focusing on institutional quality and financial development. We found that institutional quality and the level of...
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This paper addresses the well-known question of what drives people's well-being using two alternative measures of subjective well-being and comparing two econometric approaches, thus providing results robust to the recent critique by Bond and Lang (2019). The classical OLS and ordered probit...
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With the goal to shed more light on fertility drivers in Europe, we estimate the causal relationship between the number …-being is negatively hit by the unexpected increase in family size due to twin birth all across Europe. This effect turns … post-communist countries when life satisfaction is investigated. For mothers we identify larger variation across Europe and …
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Decelerating productivity in recent years raised questions about technology diffusion in the economy. This study focuses on one particular diffusion channel, entrepreneurship, and inspects the mechanics through which it interacts with digitalization. The composite indicator of digitalization is...
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