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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities

Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - 2012

entrepreneurs or self-employed in the short-term (immediately after graduation) and in the long-term (five years after graduation … effect of entrepreneurship education on students' intentions to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the long-term but a …

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The skill balancing act : determinants of and returns to balanced skills

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Noseleit, Florian - 2011

Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own … entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied skills of individuals. This data set allows us to construct an indicator that … of entrepreneurs remains the largest. The impact of human capital formation on skill balance also varies among employees …

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Institutional influences on strategic entrepreneurial behaviours

Autio, Erkko; Acs, Zoltán J. - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of cross-level moderating effects between national appropriability conditions, individual level predictors and entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We test a multi-level model that connects the determinants of strategic resource allocation...

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Creative destruction and regional productivity growth : evidence from the dutch manufacturing and services industries

Bosma, Niels; Stam, Erik; Schutjens, Veronique - 2009

Do firm entry and exit improve the competitiveness of regions? If so, is this a universal mechanism or is it contingent on the type of industry or region in which creative destruction takes place? This paper analyses the effect of firm entry and exit on the competitiveness of regions, measured...

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Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013

By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...

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The benefits of adult learning : work-related training, social capital, and earnings

Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa - 2019

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Multilateral development bank ratings and preferred creditor status

Perraudin, William R. M.; Powell, Andrew; Yang, Peng - 2016

This paper analyzes influences on the credit standing of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), specifically the quality, diversification and single name concentration of their portfolios, and on the market practice known as Preferred Creditor Status (PCS), whereby sovereigns that default on...

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The economic effects of private equity buyouts

Davis, Steven J.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Handley, Kyle; … - 2021

We examine thousands of U.S. private equity (PE) buyouts from 1980 to 2013, a period that saw huge swings in credit market tightness and GDP growth. Our results show striking, systematic differences in the real-side effects of PE buyouts, depending on buyout type and external conditions....

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Environmental innovations, local networks and internationalization

Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro - 2011

This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production systems (LPS). The role of firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is analysed for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna region,...

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Globalisation : countries, cities and multinationals

McCann, Philip; Acs, Zoltán J. - 2009

In this paper we explore the relationship between the size of a country, the size of its cities, and the economic performance of the country. In order to do this we integrate three different literature, namely the literature on optimal country size, literature on historical processes of...

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