Two very topical research questions are addressed in this book: Which are the determinants of new business formation and their survival, and will business start-ups, especially in the service sector, create employment and thereby generate growth? The analysis is based on a unique dataset...

Immer mehr junge Unternehmen entscheiden sich für die Aufnahme internationaler Aktivitäten. Auf der Basis einer empirischen Untersuchung, die bei neu gegründeten Unternehmen durchgeführt wurde, analysiert Tina Gruber-Mücke, welche Auswirkungen die Kompetenzen der Unternehmerperson auf den...

Chapter1.Introduction -- Chapter2.General Equilibrium Option Pricing Models -- Chapter3.Simulation Comparison -- Chapter4.Empirical Comparison -- Chapter5.Fanning Preference and Option Pricing -- Chapter6.Jump Size Distribution and Option Pricing -- Chapter7.Risk Aversion Estimated From Variance...

This collection of essays covers a diverse set of topics related to household behavior and welfare. Prices play a key role in several of the essays, particularly the distributional implications of price movements, and the effects of changes in relative prices on inequality and poverty. This book...

This book explores new frontiers in the research of economic growth and industrial reconstruction, analyzing economic growth and transitions in industrial structure in East Asia with a variety of data. First, the effects of demographic change on trade openness is analyzed empirically using the...

This book introduces recent developments in both theoretical and empirical analyses of local public economics. Theories of those economics as well as empirical analyses have been developed dramatically in various directions in recent years. One direction has been to reflect real economic...

The main focus of this book is innovation for developing countries: what is the innovation for, what are the current conditions of the innovation, and how to effectively innovate in developing economies. It contains the latest insights and analyses of innovation based on intensive interviews as...

This edited volume, with contributions by area experts, offers discussions on a range of evolving topics in economics and social development. At center are important issues central to sustainable development, economic growth, technological change, the economics of climate change, commodity...

The Quadruple Innovation Helix concept is the synthesis of top-down policies and practices from Government, University and Industry balanced and shaped by bottom-up initiatives and actions by Civil Society. In addition, of significance is the complementary expansion and completion of the...