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Do Sufficient Institutions Alter the Relationship between Natural Resources and Economic Growth?
Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to test whether institutional governance and its performance is a main driving force to achieve a positive relationship between natural resources and economic growth in the long run. The main objective is to ascertain what kind of institutional governance would be...
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Do University Rankings Matter for Growth?
Tan Kuan Lu, Clifford - 2014
I investigate the relationship between university rankings and economic growth and found that the relationship is statistically significant. The more the number of universities that a country has in international university rankings, the higher its GDP per capita. What is more surprising is...
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Economic Growth Dynamics Across Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The main purpose of the paper is to analyze GDP PPP per capita growth rates across countries in the period 1980-2008, as well as to identify top and bottom country performers. In addition, the author verifies the statistical relationship between GDP PPP per capita and some arbitrary selected...
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Why do Employees Leave Their Jobs for Self-Employment? – The Impact of Entrepreneurial Working Conditions in Small Firms
Werner, Arndt; Moog, Petra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Based on the finding that entrepreneurs who found new firms tend to work as employees of small rather than large firms prior to start-up, we test how different working conditions, which enhance entrepreneurial learning, affect their decision to become entrepreneurs when moderated by firm size....
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Degrowth and sustainable public finance
Pasche, Markus - 2018
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The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Latinamerican Scoreborard: The impact of University-Industry Cooperation in Ecuador
Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
of the innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin-American Countries. …
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Institutions, Entrepreneurship and Channels to Sustained Economic Growth
Mo, Pak Hung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper, we build a simple model to integrate the findings and/or hypotheses in the diverse literatures related to economic development and growth. They include the literature on institutions attributed to Douglas North (1990), on entrepreneurs, innovations and technical progress...
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Entrepreneurship Spillover and the determinants of Key Sectors for new business creation: An inter-sectorial approach
Massón-Guerra, José Luis; Vendrell-Ferrero, Ferran - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Whereas the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship focuses on the diffusion of innovative output and knowledge … entrepreneurship dissemination or entrepreneurship spillover among sectors. From an adaptation of the model of input-output matrix … (Leontief, 1936; Dietzenbacher and Los, 2002) we develop a methodology that allows calculating the concept of entrepreneurship …
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The Multipliers and Key Sectors of Entrepreneurship Spillover: An input-output approach
Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The Entrepreneurship Spillover evaluates the systemic effect of creating enterprises in different sectors and … industries from a new firm created in a given sector. One way to estimate these Entrepreneurship Spillovers is doing an … are: (a) to develop a methodology that allows calculating the concept of entrepreneurship spillover; (b) to identify the …
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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018
A positive economic growth is one crucial macroeconomic objective of every nation. Many countries have formed regional as well as international trading blocs in an attempt to enhance economic growth and maximise welfare of each member state, the AFTZ member states are not an exception. This...
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