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Property Rights and Economic Growth
Rosenberg, Nathan - Ratioinstitutet - 2003
My main purpose is to connect the issue of property rights to the set of questions concerning economic growth and the long-term determinants of the improvements in material well-being. To anticipate what will be my main conclusion, it is that property rights and economic growth are not...
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Can Unemployment Insurance Spur Entrepreneurial Activity?
Hombert, Johan; Schoar, Antoinette S; Sraer, David; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started …
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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Preemptive acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate the...
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Keeping it Simple: Financial Literacy and Rules of Thumb
Drexler, Alejandro; Fischer, Greg; Schoar, Antoinette S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Individuals and business owners engage in an increasingly complex array of financial decisions that are critical for their success and well-being. Yet a growing literature documents that in both developed and developing countries, a large fraction of the population is unprepared to make these...
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Endogenous growth through knowledge spillovers in entrepreneurship: An empirical test
Delmar, Frédéric; Wennberg, Karl; Hellerstedt, Karin - Ratioinstitutet - 2011
analysis: First, do industries with a greater need for new technology-based entrepreneurship grow disproportionately faster …
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Emergence of Firms: A Sociogeographic Demand Side Perspective
Hellerstedt, Karin; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2010
geography and population ecology to the entrepreneurship literature as to present a theoretical framework that captures both …
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Succession in Private Firms as an Entrepreneurial Process – A Review and Suggestions of New Research avenues
Wennberg, Karl; Nordqvist, Mattias; Bau, Massimo; … - Ratioinstitutet - 2010
to integrate entrepreneurship and family business research. We provide a comprehensive literature review of succession … literatures on entrepreneurship, family firms, and governance in private firms. The paper explores theoretical, conceptual, and … methodological ways of integrating these findings into the research on entrepreneurship and family business. …
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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events
Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...
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How Culture Molds the Effects of Self Efficacy and Fear of Failure on Entrepreneurship
Wennberg, Karl; Pathak, Saurav; Autio, Erkko - Ratioinstitutet - 2013
We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior … entrepreneurship. …
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The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico
Bruhn, Miriam; Karlan, Dean S.; Schoar, Antoinette S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We test whether managerial human capital has a first order effect on the performance and growth of small enterprises in emerging markets. In a randomized control trial in Puebla, Mexico, we randomly assigned 150 out of 432 small and medium size enterprises to receive subsidized consulting...
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