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Entrepreneurship and Cities: Evidence from the Post-communist World
Belitski, Maksim; Korosteleva, Julia - 2011
This paper investigates the variation in entrepreneurship across cities of the Commonwealth of Independent States … suggest that banking reform facilitates entrepreneurship, whereas the size of the state discourages it. Our results confirm a … U-shaped relationship between per-capita income and entrepreneurship. We also find that cities with higher concentration …
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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation
Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2012
growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation … tax system induce entrepreneurs to choose projects with too little risk and this problem arises primarily when … entrepreneurs market their product themselves. When innovations reduce only the fixed costs of production this leads to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320415
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283965
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Die Internationalisierung von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) und ihre Folgen für die Betriebliche Sozialordnung
Meyer, Andre - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 24 (2017) 3, pp. 347-371
Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach den Folgen von Internationalisierungsprozessen kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU …
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Governance, Demokratie und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in den ehemals sozialistischen Staaten
Apolte, Thomas; Peters, Heiko - 2009
Nach dem Zusammenbruch der sozialistischen Systeme vollzogen die betroffenen Ländern Mittel- und Osteuropas in unterschiedlichem Tempo und sequencing den Weg zu Demokratie und einer marktwirtschaftlichen Wirtschaftsordnung. Die polit-ökonomischen Probleme bei der Durchsetzung der umfassenden...
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Information sharing and credit: Firm-level evidence from transition countries
Brown, Martin; Jappelli, Tullio; Pagano, Marco - 2008
We investigate whether information sharing among banks has affected credit market performance in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, using a large sample of firm-level data. Our estimates show that information sharing is associated with improved availability...
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Oil and Growth in Transition Countries
Brunnschweiler, Christa N. - 2009
This paper examines the impact of oil on economic growth in transition economies of the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). We use oil production and reserves data in a series of panel estimations to show that oil has had strong and robust positive growth effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753172
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Monetary commitment and structural reforms: A dynamic panel analysis for transition economies
Belke, Ansgar; Vogel, Lukas - 2012
This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...
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Labor market institutions and informality in transition and Latin American countries
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2012
This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...
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High growth entrepreneurs, public policies and economic growth
Stam, Erik; Suddle, Kashifa; Hessels, S. Jolanda A.; … - 2007
This paper investigates whether the presence of ambitious entrepreneurs is a more important determinant of national … economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the … extent to which high growth ambitions of entrepreneurs affect GDP growth for a sample of 36 countries. Our results suggest …
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