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The emergence of a market for football stars : talent development and competitive balance in European football

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Olsson, Martin; Persson, Lars - 2016

We analyze how the Bosman ruling affected the market for star players and talent development in the European football market. We develop a model with sports competition and endogenous ownership of star players in which we show how the stiffer bidding competition over star players after the...

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Globalization and populism in Europe

Bergh, Andreas; Gustafsson, Anders - 2019

Recent micro-level studies have suggested that globalization - in particular, economic globalization - breeds political polarization and populism. This study examines if those results generalize by examining the country-level association between vote shares for European populist parties and...

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Schumpeterian entrepreneurship in Europe compared to other industrialized regions

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2017

We examine whether Europe has an "entrepreneurship deficit" compared to other industrialized regions. Cross … business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe has the same or higher rates of entrepreneurship than the U.S. and East … who earned their wealth by creating new firms. Western Europe is shown to underperform in all four measures of high …

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How persistent is life satisfaction? : evidence from European immigration

Berggren, Niclas; Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian; … - 2018

This paper asks to what extent life satisfaction among immigrants remains similar to that in their country of origin and to what extent it adapts to that in their country of residence. We employ data from 29,000 immigrants in the European Social Survey to estimate the relative importance of...

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The diversity of entrepreneurial regimes in Europe

Dilli, Selin; Elert, Niklas - 2016

Although institutional reforms are necessary to increase rates of entrepreneurship in European countries, we argue that one-size-fits-all reform strategies are unlikely to be successful. Reform strategies must be informed by a better knowledge of the varieties of European capitalism and the...

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Superentrepreneurship in Europe compared to other industrialised regions

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2014

burdens have higher entrepreneurship rates but less self-employment. Europe has a higher self-employment rate than the United … States and East Asia. At the same time, Europe has a lower entrepreneurship rate than competitor regions. Europe …

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Origins and resolution of financial crises : lessons from the current and Northern European crises

Ostrup, Finn; Oxelheim, Lars; Wihlborg, Clas - 2009

Since July 2007 the world economy has experienced a severe financial crisis originating in the U.S. housing market. The crisis has subsequently spread to the financial sectors in European and Asian economies and led to a severe worldwide recession. The existing literature on financial crises...

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The interplay between money market development and changes in monetary policy operations in small European countries, 1980 - 2000

Forssbæck, Jens; Oxelheim, Lars - 2007

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Employment consequences of employment protection legislation

Skedinger, Per - 2011

This article surveys the literature and adds to the evidence on the impact of employment protection legislation on employment. While stringent employment protection contributes to less turnover and job reallocation, the effects on aggregate employment and unemployment over the business cycle are...

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Trust drives internet use

Ljunge, Martin - 2012

This paper estimates the effect of trust on internet use by studying the general population as well as second generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is a significant positive effect of trust on internet use. The positive trust effect is not universal to...

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