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Good and bad institutions: Is the debate over? ; cross-country firm-level evidence from the textile industry
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza - 2011
labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency …
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Public and private insurance with costly transactions
Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - 2010
We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private transactions, and can influence consumption allocation. We show...
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The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries : Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie E. - 2004
This paper aims to identify the contribution of the business cycle and structural factors to the development of part-time employment in the EU-15 countries, through the exploitation of both cross-sectional and time series variations over the past two decades. Key results include that the...
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Entrepreneurial entry: which institutions matter?
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009
In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269212
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Better means more: property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …
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Size matters: Entrepreneurial entry and government
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010
-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272659
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Which institutions encourage entrepreneurs to create larger firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …
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The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information about the registration process and reimbursement for direct registration costs had no impact on...
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
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Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment
Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael P. - 2015
This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
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