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Diversity in Entrepreneurship: Ethnic and Female Roles in Urban Economic Life

Levent, Tuzin Baycan; Masurel, Enno; Nijkamp, Peter - 2003

focus of the research is on the attitude and behaviour of Turkish female entrepreneurs in Amsterdam. The main fascinating … question is: Are ethnic female entrepreneurs special ethnic entrepreneurs or special female entrepreneurs? This paper provides … entrepreneurs in Amsterdam show that the "ethnic female profile" is a "special female profile" and that Turkish female entrepreneurs …

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The circulation of ideas in firms and markets

Hellman, Thomas; Perotti, Enrico - 2010

Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...

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Riding the Waves of Reforms in Corporate Law, an Overview of Recent Improvements in Italian Corporate Codes of Conduct

Sabatini, Fabio - 2006

Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998 …

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Inside the Family Firm

Bennedsen, Morten; Nielsen, Kasper; Pérez-González, … - 2005

This paper uses a unique dataset from Denmark to investigate (1) the role of family characteristics in corporate decision making, and (2) the consequences of these decisions on firm performance. We focus on the decision to appoint either a family or an external chief executive officer (CEO). We...

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Does social capital mitigate precariousness?

Sabatini, Fabio - 2008

There is a surprising gap in the economic literature on social capital. First, we lack studies addressing the effects of social capital on those facets of development that can contribute in making growth more sustainable in the long run, like, for example, human development and social cohesion....

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The Determinants of Individuals Attitudes Towards Preventing Environmental Damage

Torgler, Benno; Garcia-Valiñas, Maria A. - 2005

This paper investigates empirically the determinants of individuals' attitudes towards preventing environmental damage in Spain using data from the World Values Survey and European Values Survey for the periods 1990, 1995 and 1999/2000. Compared to many previous studies, we present a richer set...

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Trust and Fiscal Performance: A Panel Analysis with Swiss Data

Torgler, Benno; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2005

Citizens are willing to abandon their short-term financial interest in free-riding considerably, if governments act in their interest, if procedures of the public decisions-making process are felt to be fair and if other fellow-citizens have to contribute also an adequate share to the community....

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Social Capital and Labour Productivity in Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - 2006

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...

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Conflict of interest in universal banking: Evidence from the post-issue performance of IPO firms

Ber, Hedva; Yafeh, Yishay; Yosha, Oved - 1997

In this paper we provide evidence that the post-issue accounting profitability of firms underwritten by bank affiliated underwriters that are also borrowers from the same bank in the IPO (Initial Public Offerings) year is significantly better than average, but that the stock price performance of...

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From State to Market: A Survey of Empirical Studies on Privatization

Megginson, William L.; Netter, Jeffry M. - 1999

This study surveys the academic and professional literature examining the privatisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), with a focus on empirical studies. Privatisation has been instrumental in reducing state ownership in many countries and had a transforming effect on global stock markets,...

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