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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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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …

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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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New Business Formation and Regional Development: A Survey and Assessment of the Evidence

Fritsch, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

research and draw some conclusions for entrepreneurship policy. …

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Does Quality Make a Difference?: Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

discuss the implications for entrepreneurship policy that can be derived from our findings. …

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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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Entry Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from a German Natural Experiment

Rostam-Afschar, Davud - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...

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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...

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Foreign Bank Presence and Its Effect on Firm Entry and Exit in Transition Economies

Havrylchyk, Olena - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

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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