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Entrepreneurship and Higher Education: An Overviewof the Iowa State University Alumni Survey
Jolly, Robert William; Li, Yu; Orazem, Peter F.; Kimle, … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010
Entrepreneurship is a hot topic both in academic and policy circles.1 There is a growingrecognition that entrepreneurship is a driving force in economic growth and development in bothestablished and emerging economies. There is also an increasing body of evidence suggestingentrepreneurship that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360738
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An Empirical Reassessment of the Relationship between Finance and Growth
Favara, Giovanni - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
This paper re-examines the empirical relationship between financial development and economic growth. It presents evidence based on an updated data set, a variety of econometric methods and two standard measures of financial development: the level of liquid liabilities of the banking system and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005858057
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Wirtschaftswachstum und Effektivität der Industrieunternehmen beim Übergang zu einer Marktwirtschaft in Bulgarien
Todorov, Todor Nenov - Hochschule <Wismar> / Fakultät für … - 2003
Das Wirtschaftswachstum und die wirtschaftliche Effektivität der Produktionsind Kernfragen der wirtschaftlichen … Entwicklung einer Gesellschaft. Ihr Erreichenist objektiv begründet und geht aus den Gesetzen, Prinzipien und Anforderungender … Problem des wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Übergangs zum Wirtschaftswachstum, weil nur so die Probleme des Übergangs zur …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862628
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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding ofthe fundamental sources of economic growth and development. In this chapter we surveyimportant contributions in the field by focussing on the basic structure of endogenous growthmodels with horizontal as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863368
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Integration des Instrumentes Environment-oriented Cost Management in die Controllingprozesse von Unternehmen in Entwicklungsländern
Wollmann, Ralph - 2001
Vor dem Hintergrund des oft vernachlässigten industriellen Umweltschutzes in Entwicklungsländern entwickelt das Pilotvorhaben zur Unterstützung umweltorientierter Unternehmensführung in Entwicklungsländern (P3U) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) das Instrument...
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Over-Nutrition and Changing Health Status in HighIncome Countries - Revised 02/28/08
Huffman, Wallace E.; Huffman, Sonya K.; Rickertsen, Kyrre; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008
Malnutrition and food deprivation, which are concentrated in poor countries, have been along-term concern of economists, but as per capita income in developed countries has grown in the20th century, a new problem of over-nutrition leading to obesity has occurred. This paper developsmodels of...
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THE DETERMINANTS OF UP-FRONT FEES ON BANK LOANS TO LDCSOVEREIGNS
Hallak, Issam - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2001
The paper explores the determinants of up-front fees on sovereign bank loans.Remuneration of bank loans is typically channelled through the floating interestbenchmark, the interest spread, and a battery of fees. There is substantial evidence of thespread paying for long-run sovereign repayment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870256
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Keeping it Simple: Financial Literacy and Rules of Thumb
Drexler, Alejandro; Fischer, Greg; Schoar, Antoinette - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
Individuals and business owners engage in an increasingly complex array of financialdecisions that are critical for their success and well-being. Yet a growing literature documentsthat in both developed and developing countries, a large fraction of the population is unpreparedto make these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008845709
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Rent-Seeking Distortions and Fiscal Procyclicality
Ilzetzki, Ethan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008
Recent research has demonstrated that while government expenditures are countercyclical inmost industrialized countries, they tend to be procyclical in developing countries. We develop adynamic political economy model to explain this phenomenon. In the model, public expendituresprovide insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939830
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Fiscal Policy and Debt Dynamics in Developing Countries
Ilzetzki, Ethan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2011
Utilizing a new database of tax rates, tax revenues and tax income-elasticities we contribute to the debate on the effects of …fiscal policyon economic activity in a number of ways. First, using both panelGMM and panel VAR methods, we …find that the effects of tax cuts onGDP growth are...
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