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Finpron vaikuttavuus: Finpron palveluiden käytön vaikutukset yritysten kansainvälistymiseen ja menestymiseen
Hyytinen, Ari; Pajarinen, Mika; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - 2011
The study investigates, by using econometric evaluation methods, how the usage of Finpro's (a public agency promoting internationalization of business) services impacts on the internationalization and performance of small and medium-sized firms in Finland. We measure internationalization and...
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Miltä startupit näyttävät tilastojen valossa?
Kotiranta, Annu; Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - 2016
In this study, we analyze the characteristics and development of Finnish startups based on firm-level data available in public databases. By startups we refer to young, small, and independent firms holding basic elements for growth. Some 4 000–5 000 of such firms are being established...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037686
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Alkuvaiheen koko, osakeyhtiömuoto ja kasvuhakuisuus selittävät nuorten yritysten toteutunutta kasvua
Kotiranta, Annu; Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - 2016
In this report, we study the development of Finnish startup firms based on both survey and register data. The sample includes all firms that were founded in the first half of the year 2005, and those firms have been monitored for eight years. We find that entrepreneurs in growth-oriented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037685
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Onko uusyrittäjyyden luonne muuttunut?
Kotiranta, Annu; Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - 2016
About half of all new business activity in Finland can be categorized as being entrepreneurial. The number of this kind of new businesses has not increased dramatically during the last ten years. However, the characteristics of these businesses have changed. Nowadays, new entrepreneurs have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037687
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Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2009
Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship without directing attention to quantitative goals and specific firms or employment groups. The institutional framework set by public policy affects the prevalence and performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320341
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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269289
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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276756
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The shadow economy in international comparison: Options for economic policy derived from an OECD panel analysis
Thießen, Ulrich - 2010
Building on new behavioral and institutional theories, using a data set of about 450 variables and augmenting the Sala-i-Martin definition of robustness, we find evidence in support of the hypothesis that the standard causes of the shadow economy (SE), taxes, the administrative burden and labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285760
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Do the rich vote conservative because they are rich?
Lind, Jo Thori - 2006
Political economy models predict that the rich oppose redistribution, and hence vote for conservative parties. Although this seems to fit the data well, I show that this is not true when we control for unobservable characteristics. Using Norwegian survey data, I study to what extent voting is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284373
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Regionalökonomie und Finanzierung kleiner und mittelständischer Unternehmen: Ansätze zur Erklärung eines Ost-West-Gefälles
Neuberger, Doris - 1999
kleiner und mittelständischer Unternehmen (KMU) eine Schlüsselrolle. Die deutschen Banken sehen sich oft dem Vorwurf … Sterberaten von KMU, um die Ergebnisse für die Erklärung räumlich unterschiedlicher Fi-nanzierungsbedingungen am Beispiel eines … Ost-West-Gefälles in Deutschland nutzbar zu ma-chen. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319343