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Corruption in higher education: causes, consequences, reforms - the case of Georgia

Orkodashvili, Mariam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Certain cases from any single country might provide examples for consideration of corruption issues for other countries … or regions. Corruption cases and the strategies of fighting them in Georgian flagship universities might be noteworthy … and useful for other countries facing similar problems. The paper discusses the features of corruption in higher education …

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Decentralising the public sector: The Impact of Decentralisation on Service Delivery, Corruption, Fiscal Management and Growth in Developing and Emerging Market Economies: A Synthe...

Shah, Anwar; Thompson, Theresa; Zou, Heng-fu - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 1, pp. 10-14

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Do Strict Electoral Campaign Finance Rules Limit Corruption?

Stratmann, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 1, pp. 24-27

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The attitude toward the risk of entrepreneurial activity: Evidence from Chile

P. Sepulveda, Jean; Bonilla, Claudio - Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad del Desarrollo - 2010

contained in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey. Interesting results are found. First, we found that being male, having …

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Credit rationing or entrepreneurial risk aversion? A comment

Vergara, Marcos; Bonilla, Claudio A. - Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad del Desarrollo - 2012

Cressy (2000) argues that the positive correlation between assets and the rate of business startups is due to DARA preferences. We show however that the required property is prudence,and prudence is consistent with DARA, IARA or CARA.

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Risk Aversion, Entrepreneurial Risk, and Portfolio Selection

Fang, Hongyan; Nofsinger, John R. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 13 (2009) 2, pp. 25-55

Do entrepreneurs consider the risk of their business equity when making investment portfolio allocations? Many people compartmentalize different risks and consider them separately, called mental accounting. Alternatively, the risk substitution hypothesis suggests that entrepreneurs would offset...

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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using a representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater Dublin Area …, we find a significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show …

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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship: evidence from a representative immigrant survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-25

investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household … aversion and entrepreneurship. Our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they … risk preferences and entrepreneurship reported in previous studies. Copyright Batista and Umblijs.; licensee Springer 2014 …

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Risk attitudes and private business equity

Fossen, Frank M. - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2012

Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute …

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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the domain of work to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in … significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show that the use of …

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