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This paper discusses a two-sector neoclassical overlapping generationseconomy with intermediate and final goods in the spirit of Romer(1990). The risk averse agents engage in one of two alternative occupations:either firm-ownership in the intermediate goods sector, characterizedby monopolistic...
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for the macroeconomic equilibrium of the economy. An increase in the tax rate on mean income has an unambiguously negative …
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finetune their supply to better match market demand. By extending Arrow (1962)'s analysis of the market for information to the … that Big Data modify the market for information by introducing new informational products which are not public goods. This … characteristic is crucial as it implies that private production of personal-data based information can be profitable. This …
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Spanish economy. To study the international spillover effects on the Spanish economy, we carry out two exercises by means of …
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COVID-19. Information about the infection risk will be more effective if provided in ways that arouse relevant emotions - a …” communicating public risks, e.g. by providing statistical information, is not enough to nudge behavioural improvement regarding …
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evaluate sectoral performance. The findings revealed varied growth patterns; the information technology sector exhibited a … robust increase, while the telecommunications sector showed significant percentage growth. Conversely, the Information and …
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This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ownership and that of economic development. Two extensions of the...
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: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative … contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy based on four measures that have most widely been studied empirically. Hence, we … very important—but specific—function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …
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This study explores individual and country-level environmental drivers of informal "seed" investment. We examine four types of informal investors based on business ownership experience (or no such experience) and close family relationship with investee (or no such relationship): "classic love...
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We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two...
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