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De-industrialisation and entrepreneurship under monopolistic competition

Schweinberger, Albert G.; Suedekum, Jens - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2015

This paper offers a new mechanism to explain de-industrialisation in response to a price increase of the manufactured good. In our trade model, one sector (agriculture) is perfectly competitive while the other (manufacturing) is monopolistically competitive. Both industries use skilled and...

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Dynamic Strategies for Successful Online Crowdfunding

Li, Zhuoxin; Duan, Jason A. - NET Institute - 2014

Crowdfunding is a fast emerging internet fundraising mechanism for soliciting capital from the crowd to support entrepreneurial ventures. This paper empirically investigates the dynamics of investorsâ€™ backing behaviors in the presence of network externalities and a finite time window. The...

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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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Publishing Sustainability Research Visually: A Film about the Opportunities and Challenges of a Rural Entrepreneurship Initiative in Kenya

Ness, Barry; Akerman, Ann - In: Challenges in Sustainability 1 (2013) 2, pp. 80-81

We have witnessed a large increase in the number of publications on sustainability challenges over the past decade. One important characteristic of the research is with the wide variety of actors that can make use of the results. Sustainability knowledge is often not only relevant for those in...

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Bureaucracy, Entrepreneurship, and Natural Resources: Witless Policy and the Barrier Islands

Siffin, William J. - In: Cato Journal 1 (1981) 1, pp. 293-311

There are about 1,605,000 acres in about 300 barrier islands and spits in the United States.â€™ They rim the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from Cape Cod to the Mexican border and vary from small units of 50 acres or less to islands of more than 100,000 acres. Some are lit- tle more than elevated...

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Enhancing Corporate Governance in High-Growth Entrepreneurial Firms

Ahn, Mark J. - In: International Journal of Innovation and Technology … 11 (2014) 06, pp. 1450038-1

This study explores how new ventures access advice to achieve high growth and sustainable performance. A relational model of three important themes — compliance (regulatory and legal governance), contacts (networks of suppliers, customers, investors), and content (strategic insights) —...

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Is Entrepreneurship a Channel of Social Mobility in Latin America?

Castellani, Francesca; Lora, Eduardo - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 51 (2014) 2, pp. 179-194

This paper summarizes the findings in this special issue of the Latin American Journal of Economics on entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship. The income-persistent coefficients estimated with pseudo-panel data for Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay indicate that … entrepreneurship is a channel of intergenerational mobility, while asset persistence estimates for Mexico show that entrepreneurship …

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Mobility and Entrepreneurship in Ecuador: A Dynamic Pseudo-Panel Approach

Ordeñana, Xavier; Villa, Ramon - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 51 (2014) 2, pp. 307-341

Does entrepreneurship contribute to improving social mobility in Ecuador? This paper constructs a pseudo-panel to … analyze the dynamic effect of entrepreneurship on Ecuadorian household incomes during the period 2002- 2010. Using dynamic … and an important effect of entrepreneurship (conditional mobility). …

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Middle-Class Entrepreneurs and Inadequate Prospects for Social Mobility through Entrepreneurship in Colombia

Melendez, Marcela; Mejia, Paula - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 51 (2014) 2, pp. 279-305

This paper explores whether Colombia's middle class is a cradle of entrepreneurship that drives innovation and business … true for middle-class entrepreneurs in particular or if it is a result of entrepreneurship. Nor is there evidence that …

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Is Entrepreneurship Inherited? A Study of Intergenerational Social Mobility in Mexico

Velez-Grajales, Viviana; Velez-Grajales, Roberto - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 51 (2014) 2, pp. 247-278

distinguished from own-account workers. First, we find that entrepreneurship is strongly determined by the father being an …

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