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Is Old Money Better than New? Duration and Monetary Regimes
Rose, Andrew K.; Mihov, Ilian - 2007
We compare the duration and performance of different monetary regimes, especially the contrast between countries those that fix exchange rates and those that target inflation. Inflation targeting is a more durable policy; no country has yet been forced to abandon an inflation target, while many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295233
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Factors Affecting New Firm Success and Their Use in Venture Capital Financing
Bates, Timothy; Bradford, William D. - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 2 (1992) 1, pp. 23-38
Using a nationwide sample of 14,424 new firms, we find that attractive human capital traits at business entry for entrepreneurs include high educational attainment, owners who lie in the middle of—as opposed to the tails of—the age distribution, and family business background. Attractive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310308
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Initial Capital Constraints hinder Entrepreneurial Venture Performance
van Praag, Mirjam; de Wit, Gerrit; Bosma, Niels - 2003
This article investigates empirically whether and to what extent initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial performance once the venture has been started. Prior empirical research in this area could investigate this issue only indirectly by lack of data. The key contribution of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325072
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On the Measurement of Success and Satisfaction
van den Brink, René; Steffen, Frank - 2012
The main purpose of the present paper is to disentangle the mix-up of the notions of success and satisfaction which is … relationship and measurement. We show that satisfaction contains success as one component, and that both coincide under the … provide two examples of sequential decision-making mechanisms in order to illustrate the difference between success and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326272
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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329089
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Is Old Money Better than New? Duration and Monetary Regimes
Rose, Andrew K.; Mihov, Ilian - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-13, pp. 1-24
We compare the duration and performance of different monetary regimes, especially the contrast between countries those that fix exchange rates and those that target inflation. Inflation targeting is a more durable policy; no country has yet been forced to abandon an inflation target, while many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332961
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Are new German postal providers successful? Empirical evidence based on unique survey data
El Masri, Toufic M. - 2013
success determinants of market leader competitors. The analysis is based on eight 2011 case studies, in which I conducted in … firms to succeed and survive in the market despite the natural monopoly occurring within the postal industry. The success of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333512
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How successful is the G7 in managing exchange rates?
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2008
longer horizons. While the success of the G7 is partly dependent on the market environment, it is also to a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604998
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Do Male Managers Increase Risk-Taking of Female Teams? Evidence from the NCAA
Böheim, René; Freudenthaler, Christoph; Lackner, Mario - 2019
significantly positive effect on game success suggests that female coaches should be more risk-taking. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005845
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Importance of guanxi in Chinese apparel new venture success: A mixed-method approach
Zhao, Li; Ha-Brookshire, Jung E. - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 8 (2018) 13, pp. 1-19
importance of guanxi in Chinese apparel new venture success. Results showed that three dimensions of new venture network …
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