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Entrepreneurship and Cities: Evidence from the Post-communist World

Belitski, Maksim; Korosteleva, Julia - 2011

This paper investigates the variation in entrepreneurship across cities of the Commonwealth of Independent States … suggest that banking reform facilitates entrepreneurship, whereas the size of the state discourages it. Our results confirm a … U-shaped relationship between per-capita income and entrepreneurship. We also find that cities with higher concentration …

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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2012

Many governments promote small businesses for the dual reasons of fostering 'breakthrough' innovations and employment growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation project and on their mode of commercializing the...

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Arbeitgeberverhalten in der Wirtschaftskrise: Ergebnisse empirischer Studien in den Monaten April und November 2009

Martin, Albert - 2010

Die Ergebnisse, über die im Folgenden berichtet wird, wurden im Rahmen von zwei Meinungsumfragen ermittelt. Die erste Umfrage erfolgte im April 2009 und befasste sich mit der Wettbewerbssituation von Arbeitnehmern, die zweite Umfrage richtete sich auf die Beurteilung der betrieblichen...

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Leasing by small enterprises

Neuberger, Doris; Räthke-Döppner, Solvig - 2012

Using internal data of a leasing company in Germany, we examine the determinants of the probability and use of leasing by small firms. We find that small and young firms are likely to be constrained on the leasing market but use leasing to increase their debt capacity. Beyond contract- and...

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Knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Estonia

Varblane, Urmas; Mets, Tõnis; Andrijevskaja, Janita - 2010

extensive research. This paper focuses on an area of entrepreneurship which has received relatively little attention in the …-based entrepreneurship (KBE), or new firm creation in industries considered to be science-based or to use research and development (R …

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