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Who are the microenterprise owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - 2008
Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268591
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291523
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Intelligence, Self-confidence and Entrepreneurship
Asoni, Andrea - 2011
find that individuals with higher measured intelligence and self-confidence are more likely to be entrepreneurs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320404
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Economists on Darwin's theory of social evolution and human behaviour
Marciano, Alain - 2005
The purpose of this article is to analyse the way economists interested in social and economic evolution cite, mention or refer to Darwin. We focus on the attitude of economists towards Darwin's theory of social evolution - an issue he considered as central to his theory. We show that economists...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266698
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Optimal Control and Spatial Heterogeneity: Pattern Formation in Economic-Ecological Models
Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Brock, William - 2005
This paper extends Turing analysis to standard recursive optimal control frameworks in economics and applies it to dynamic bioeconomic problems where the interaction of coupled economic and ecological dynamics under optimal control over space creates (or destroys) spatial heterogeneity. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312617
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Optimal age- and gear-specific harvesting policies for North-East Arctic cod
Diekert, Florian K.; Hjermann, Dag Ø.; Nævdal, Eric; … - 2008
We examine optimal harvest policies in a multi-cohort, multi-gear bioeconomic model of North-East Arctic cod (Gadus morhua) which includes cannibalism and contains broader ecosystem effects. By controlling the selectivity of the different fishing equipment, we can partially target different age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285622
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A Triptych Inquiry: Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation, and Financial Performance
Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - 2011
Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325873
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Risk attitude, beliefs, and information in a corruption game: An experimental analysis
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Haller, Sven; Krüger, Tyll; … - 2012
For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs, and information on behavioral choices and determined the equilibria. We observed that the participants' risk attitudes failed to explain their choices between corrupt and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291803
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Risk attitude in couples
Bacon, Philomena M.; Conte, Anna; Moffatt, Peter G. - 2012
The determinants of risk attitude in couples are explored using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel over the period 2004 to 2009. The focus of the analysis is the repeated responses to the survey question about general willingness to take risk. Responses to this question are provided on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291807
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The determinants of managerial decisions under risk
Kocher, Martin G.; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sutter, Matthias - 2008
In hierarchical organizations the role of a team leader often requires making decisions which do not necessarily coincide with the majority opinion of the team. However, these decisions are final and binding for all team members. We study experimentally why, and under which conditions, leaders...
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