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Business Takeover or New Venture? Individual and Environmental Determinants from a Cross-Country Study
Block, Jörn - 2014
Whereas the determinants of entrepreneurial choice have been thoroughly analyzed in the literature, little is known about the preferred mode of entry into entrepreneurship, such as taking over an existing business or starting a new venture. Using a large international dataset, this study reports...
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The Scientific Output of a Database on Commercialized Patents
Svensson, Roger - 2020
The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by inventors and small firms with a remarkably high response...
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010372494
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Explaining Preferences and Actual Involvement in Self-Employment : New Insights into the Role of Gender
Verheul, I. - 2013
This paper investigates why women's self-employment rates are consistently lower than those of men. It has three focal points. It discriminates between the preference for self-employment and actual involvement in self-employment using a two (probit) equation model. It makes a systematic...
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The revolution within: ICT and the shifting knowledge base of the world's largest companies
Mendonça, Sandro - 2005
This empirical paper analyses the importance of information and communications technologies (ICT) in the technological … all industries to patent in ICT is distinctive when compared with the tendency to patent in other technologies. We find … that technological diversification in large companies has clearly occurred in ICTs. Non-ICT specialist industries …
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Multi-Period Emissions Trading in the Electricity Sector: Winners and Losers
Bode, Sven - 2004
Emission trading has become recently more and more import in environmental regulation. In the context of controlling greenhouse gas emissions, the directive on a Europewide trading scheme for large immobile sources may be perceived as one of the most important milestones in recent years. Prior...
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Ownership, economic entrenchment and allocation of capital
Eklund, Johan E.; Desai, Sameeksha - 2008
investment opportunities. This process is affected by the concentration of corporate control, which in turn is affected by market …
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Economic governance of MFIs: Inside the black box
Arun, Thankom; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2010
This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs): poverty reduction and financial viability. Using an unbalanced panel of 531 MFIs the important role of other institutions such as country-level business registry...
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The Real Effects of Private Equity Buyouts
Tåg, Joacim - 2010
Private equity buyouts have become a common element in the industrial development process. I survey the literature on the real economic effect of buyouts: employment, wages, productivity, and long-run investments. Employment tend to marginally fall after a buyout in most countries studied, with...
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