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Togo: recent political and economic development

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Backed by peaceful but undemocratic presidential (2010) and legislative (July 2013) elections the Gnassingbé regime consolidated its power. In view of the absolute majority of the ruling party, its inclination for meaningful constitutional and electoral reforms, as demanded by the opposition...

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Togo: Failed election and misguided aid at the roots of economic misery

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The holding of early parliamentary elections in Togo on October 14, 2007, most likely the first free and fair Togolese elections since decades, are considered internationally as a litmus test of despotic African regimes’ propensity to change towards democratization and economic prosperity....

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Togo: a didactic drama of misled democratisation in Africa

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

When the longest-serving African dictator, Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma, died unexpectedly in February 2005 after 38 years of autocratic rule, Togo became a test case for indigenous democratisation efforts of African states. However, it soon became clear that a change of regime through the ballot...

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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2011

-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …

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Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information and Ownership in the Innovation Process

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norback, Pehr-Johan; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

aggressive development of a basic innovation by better informed venture-backed firms is used as a signaling device to enhance the … sale price of the innovation. We then show that incumbents can undertake early, preemptive, acquisitions to prevent such … signaling driven overinvestment, despite the risk of buying a non-productive innovation. Therefore, to exist in equilibrium …

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Drivers of change or cut-throat competitors? Challenging Cultures of Innovation of Chinese and Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

invented anew by transnational networks of migration in a globalized world. There is no evidence for a supposed superiority of …

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