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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization
Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2009
What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies in the last few decades? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the con.ict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320207
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Can the gains from Argentina's utilities reform offset credit shocks?
Benitez, Daniel A.; Chisari, Omar O.; Estache, Antonio - 2001
Relying on a general equilibrium model of Argentina’s economy calibrated for 1993 and internalizing all productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279242
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Mitigating the COVID-19 effect: Emergency economic policy-making in Central Europe
Podvršič, Ana; Becker, Joachim; Piroska, Dóra; … - 2020
The paper analyses the economic policy-making in the first phase of the epidemic in five Central Europe countries, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. We focus on the participatory character of the governments'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565926
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Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship? The impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin - 2007
The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test … requirements are detrimental to entrepreneurship. Second, we test whether corruption reduces the negative impact of regulations on … entrepreneurship in highly regulated economies. Our empirical analysis for a maximum of 43 countries over the period 2003-2005 shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277758
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Productive and Destructive Entrepreneurship in a Political Economy Framework
Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus - 2008
Recent research has highlighted the role of institutions in channeling entrepreneurs into activities with positive or negative effects on overall productivity. Embedding central elements from these theories into a political economy framework reveals the bilateral causal relation between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320193
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Institutional Entrepreneurship: An Introduction
Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2010
classify the budding research field that explores the interplay between institutions and entrepreneurship. Institutions channel … development of nations. What's more, entrepreneurship is not only influenced by institutions - entrepreneurs often shape … institutions themselves. Entrepreneurship abiding by existing institutions is occasionally disruptive enough to challenge the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320294
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Foreign exchange interventions in emerging market countries: New lessons from Argentina
Brause, Alexander - 2008
Academic literature on foreign exchange market intervention in emerging market countries has grown in recent years. Until now, existing studies have ignored the possible feature of time varying motives and impact effects for/of interventions as well as the relationship to underlying economic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300836
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A reassessment of Argentina's GHG proposed target
Conte Grand, Mariana; D'Elia, Vanesa - 2011
At the time of Argentina's greenhouse gases emissions reduction voluntary commitment, most of the articles on intensity … targets had not been published. The aim of this paper is to (re)discuss briefly the proposal made by Argentina taking into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323089
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The Argentine competition law and its enforcement
Coloma, Germán - 2007
This article analyzes the basic characteristics of the Argentine competition law and the way in which it has been enforced in several important antitrust cases. We begin with a section that introduces the evolution of the law, followed by another section about the basic economic and legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323112
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Social spending and Income redistribution in Argentina during the 2000s: The rising role of noncontributory pensions
Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola - 2012
Between 2003 and 2009, Argentina's social spending as a share of GDP increased by 7.6 percentage points. Marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323151