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The theoretical work on capital income taxation has focused on conditions under which a tax system preserves investment neutrality. The trouble with such a neutrality view is that it is focused on one margin among others. The economics of start-up firms is, however, fundamentally different from...
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The paper addresses both the Romanian and European policies for entrepreneurship, in conjunction with the objectives of … concepts of entrepreneurship education and urban development, as they are defined by the European Commission. On one hand, the … entrepreneurship refers to individual’s ability and capacity to implement their ideas. On the other hand, entrepreneurial education …
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate critically the gender variations in informal sector entrepreneurship. Until now, a … widely-held belief has been that entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector in developing nations are lowly paid, poorly … an extensive 2003 survey conducted in urban Brazil of informal sector entrepreneurs operating micro-enterprises with five …
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There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms' propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...
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This study investigates the impact of foreign bank penetration in Central and Eastern Europe on firm entry. We demonstrate that the acquisition of domestic banks by foreign investors has led to reduced firm creation, smaller average size of entrants and increased firm exit in opaque industries...
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Institutional economics has long shown that entrepreneurship plays a critical role in the pursuit of economic … development and wellbeing. At the same time, entrepreneurship is complex and evolving. The path between entrepreneurship and … acknowledge this heterogeneity has important consequences for entrepreneurship policy and human development, particularly where …
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an entrepreneur as that of a solitary warrior, a lone wolf; one against the flow. However, in reality entrepreneurs are … of entrepreneurs. …
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and entrepreneurship is increasing in mortgage debt; and (iii) the negative relation is more pronounced for entrepreneurs …We study the link between homeownership and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and housing tenure … unobservables, we test and confirm these predictions. Leveraged home-buyers are 30% less likely to become entrepreneurs. …
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We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain entrepreneurial growth aspirations across individuals … levels of corruption, weaker property rights and greater government activity on entrepreneurs' aspirations to increase … the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 42 countries for 2001–2006, applying a multilevel estimation framework to …
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