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Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up, and Performance
Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255609
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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance
Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256235
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Entrepreneurship and Role Models
Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
In the media role models are increasingly being acknowledged as an influential factor in explaining the reasons for the choice of occupation and career. Various conceptual studies have proposed links between role models and entrepreneurial intentions. However, empirical research aimed at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008921780
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Entrepreneurship and Role Models
Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This discussion paper led to the publication in the <I>Journal of Economic Psychology</I> 2012, 33(2), 410-424.<P> In the media role models are increasingly being acknowledged as an influential factor in explaining the reasons for the choice of occupation and career. Various conceptual studies have...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256337
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Risk Diversification by European Financial Conglomerates
Slijkerman, Jan Frederik; Schoenmaker, Dirk; Vries, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and … diversification within large banks and financial conglomerates. We discuss the limited value of the normal distribution based … versus large banks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255734
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Competition and Entry in Banking: Implications for Stability and Capital Regulation
Boot, Arnoud W.A.; Marinc, Matej - Tinbergen Institute
extant literature in that it recognizes the fixed costs associated with banks' monitoring technologies. These costs make … market share and scale important for the banks' cost structures. Our most striking result is that increasing (costly) capital … requirements can lead to more entry into banking, essentially by reducing the competitive strength of lower quality banks. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209515
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Risk Diversification by European Financial Conglomerates
Slijkerman, Jan Frederik; Schoenmaker, Dirk; Vries, … - Tinbergen Institute
We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and … diversification within large banks and financial conglomerates. We discuss the limited value of the normal distribution based … versus large banks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137073
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Competition and Entry in Banking: Implications for Stability and Capital Regulation
Boot, Arnoud W.A.; Marinc, Matej - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
extant literature in that it recognizes the fixed costs associated with banks' monitoring technologies. These costs make … market share and scale important for the banks' cost structures. Our most striking result is that increasing (costly) capital … requirements can lead to more entry into banking, essentially by reducing the competitive strength of lower quality banks. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257508