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Composition of regional conditions for start-up activity- evidence based on Swiss Mobilite Spatiale regions

Kronthaler, Franz; Becker, Katharina; Wagner, Kerstin - 2010

results of the theoretical and empirical literature on entrepreneurship. Cluster Analysis serves to compare different regions …

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Combination of regional characteristics for start-up activity in Switzerland

Kronthaler, Franz; Becker, Katharina; Wagner, Kerstin - 2012

Start-up activities are considered to be important for regional economic development which varies considerably between regions. As new firm formation and growth is strongly influenced by regional conditions, we analyse the role of regional conditions and their impact on start-up activities. In...

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Can oil-rich countries encourage entrepreneurship? 'yes', 'no' but not 'perhaps'

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2014

.e., marginalized entrepreneurship activities. Our panel data analysis of 65 countries from 2004 to 2011 shows a negative and … statistically significant association between oil rents dependency and entrepreneurship indicator. This finding is robust to control … of other major drivers of entrepreneurship, unobservable country and time fixed effects and a different measurement of …

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COVID-19 and SMEs: A 2021 "time bomb"?

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021

This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 time bomb for SMEs. Rather, business...

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The local origins of business formation

Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Dunne, Timothy; Haltiwanger, John C. - 2023

What locations generate more business ideas, and where are ideas more likely to turn into businesses? Using comprehensive administrative data on business applications, we analyze the spatial disparity in the creation of business ideas and the formation of new employer startups from these ideas....

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New Estimates of the Duration and Risk of Unemployment for West-Germany

Wilke, Ralf A. - 2004

This paper analyzes changes in the risk of unemployment and changes in the distribution of unemployment duration for the 26 to 41 years old working population in West-Germany during the 1980ties and 1990ties. The comprehensive IAB employment subsample 1975- 1997 is used for the analysis. It...

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Pro-environmental Behaviors, Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development in Russia

Ratner, Svetlana - 2014

The studies of environmental awareness or the so-called people's pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) became a popular topic in Europe, North America and Asia, but not yet in Russia. Many studies investigated PEBs revealed that monetary saving and health concern are considered to be the most...

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Nonparametric Multiple Change Point Analysis of the Global Financial Crisis

Allen, David E.; McAleer, Michael; Powell, Robert J.; … - 2013

This paper presents an application of a recently developed approach by Matteson and James (2012) for the analysis of change points in a data set, namely major financial market indices converted to financial return series. The general problem concerns the inference of a change in the distribution...

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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice I – Theory

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013

We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. 'Dictator games' with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...

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Revealed Notions of Distributive Justice II – Experimental Evidence

Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013

We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a 'social planner' or a 'veil of ignorance' experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion paper by Becker, Häger, and Heufer (BHH,...

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