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Les industries animales dans l'ouest de la France : les territoires industrielles de Chateau-Renault et Surgères.
Perrin, Cedric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The author of this paper intends to compare two industrial territories from western France: Chateau-Renault and Surgères. Chateau-Renault is a tanning center, and the city of Surgères houses a vast dairy. The industries of both areas deal with products of animal origins deriving from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259354
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Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild.
Richardson, Gary; McBride, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
important role in shaping economic institutions. This insight explains why during the fourteenth century, when plagues decimated … conclusion has implications for the study of institutions, economics, and religion throughout history and in the developing world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720575
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Relations between institutions and industrial policies
Strachman, Eduardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The paper aims to show some of the complex relationships between institutions and industrial policies. Institutions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014707
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Resource abundance: A curse or blessing?
Victor Polterovich, Vladimir Popov, Alexander Tonis - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2010
is slower and institutions are worse, especially if they were not strong initially, which are detrimental for growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602743
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Back to the failure: An analytic narrative of the De Lorean debacle
Brownlow, Graham - Centre for Economic History, Management School - 2014
in the rewards associated with industrial policy, and the fact that the objectives of the institutions implementing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958285
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Entrepreneurship and market order: Some historical evidence
Bitros, George C.; Minoglou, Ioanna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Our objective here is to establish the proposition that creative entrepreneurship gives rise to a market order which is optimally adjusted to facilitate the introduction and the diffusion of innovations, particularly those that take the form of new markets, new organizational schemes, new...
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Cities of Commerce: how can we test the hypothesis?
Daudin, Guillaume - DIAL - 2014
, footloose foreign traders and municipal autonomy) was central to the rise of inclusive trade institutions in Europe. The first … concurrentes entre elles, des négociants se déplaçant facilement, et l’autonomie urbaine) a été centrale pour la généralisation d’institutions … compétition urbaine combinée à des institutions de bonne qualité n’apparaît pas comme un facteur de croissance pour les villes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942099
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Institutions and Regulations in Innovation Systems: Effects, Problems and Innovation Policy Design
Borrás, Susana; Edquist, Charles - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014
Institutions (including regulations) are constitutive elements of innovation systems, and therefore cornerstones of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098758
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Black-box business dynamics
Callejón, María; Ortún, Vicente - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2009) 15, pp. 167-189
This article highlights the contributions of business dynamics research to industrial policy design. Business creation support programs are widespread despite the fact that the optimal rate of business creation and destruction remains unknown. Economic analysis emphasizes heterogeneity as the...
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The entrepreneurial economy of David Audretsch
Callejón, María - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2009) 15, pp. 47-54
Few areas in economics enjoy better theoretical grounds than Industrial Organization. And David Austretsch has greatly contributed to improve the IO field with his own dynamic models of entrepreneurship and, also, the inspiration and stimulus he has instilled to other scholars. In his article...
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