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The Impact of Public Subsidies on Venture Capital Investments in Start-Up Enterprises

Schertler, Andrea - 2000

start-up enterprises if future losses of the start-up investment are partly covered by the government. …

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Investment, uncertainty and irreversibility: evidence from belgian accounting data

Cassimon, Danny; Engelen, Peter-Jan; Meersman, Hilde; … - 2002

This paper investigates the effects of uncertainty on the investment behaviour using firm-level data for a sample of … invested. Furthermore, the difference between reversible and irreversible investment is crucial. The impact of volatility on … irreversible investment is far more larger than on reversible investment. In some cases, the amount of reversible investment will …

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Investment, protection, ownership, and the cost of capital

Himmelberg, Charles P.; Hubbard, R. Glenn; Love, Inessa - 2002

We investigate the cost of capital in a model with an agency conflict between inside managers and outside shareholders. Inside ownership reflects the classic tradeoff between incentives and risk diversification, and the severity of agency costs depends on a parameter representing investor...

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FDI promotion through bilateral investment treaties: More than a bit?

Busse, Matthias; Königer, Jens; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2008

Policymakers in developing countries have increasingly pinned their hopes on bilateral investment treaties (BITs) in … order to improve their chances in the worldwide competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). However, the effectiveness …

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Subsidization and Structural Change in Eastern German Transition: Did Economic Policy Meet Its Objectives?

Gerling, Katja - 2000

several kinds. This paper analyzes the structural effects of investment subsidization as one of the core policy instruments by … means of an error-correction model of factor demand and output. It intends to find out whether investment subsidization …

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On the empirics of capital accumulation and economic growth

Gundlach, Erich - 1993

the rate of investment in physical capital increases the growth rate by about 0.1 percentage points. The results do not …

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Distribution dynamics in European venture capital

Stolpe, Michael - 2003

This paper evaluates the evolution of European venture capital investments since 1990, using the distribution dynamics methodology. It tests and rejects the hypothesis that the international allocation of venture capital investments is driven by a pathdependent process of agglomeration, in which...

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Benchmarking the future: a dynamic, multi-regional, multi-sectoral trade model for the analysis of climate policies

Klepper, Gernot; Springer, Katrin - 2000

For analyzing the impact of climate change and of international climate policies on the international division of labor and on regional welfare the use of a disaggregated multi–sectoral, multi–regional dynamic computable general equilibrium model is appropriate. This paper discusses the...

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Climatic conditions, cultural diversity, and labor productivity

Gundlach, Erich; Matus-Velasco, Ximena - 2000

Countries with the highest labor productivity overwhelmingly lie in the world's temperate climatic zones far away from the equator. The question we address is whether climatic conditions as measured by distance from the equator remain correlated with labor productivity after other variables are...

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Why economic growth trends differ so much across developing countries: the globalization debate and its relevance to Pakistan

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

The claim of globalization critics that the income gap to industrial countries is bound to widen for essentially all developing countries as a consequence of economic globalization is in conflict with empirical evidence. Economic performance differs tremendously across developing countries. We...

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