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Firm Growth and Scaling of Growth Rate Variance in Multiplant Firms

Coad, Alex - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

While Gibrat's Law assumes that growth rate variance is independent of size, empirical work has usually found a negative relationship between growth rate variance and ï¬rm growth. Using data on French manufacturing ï¬rms, we observe a relatively low, but statistically signiï¬cant, negative...

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Why Does the Effect of New Business Formation Differ Across Regions?

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We investigate regional differences of the effect of new business formation on employment growth in West Germany. We find an inverse â€˜uâ€™-shaped relationship between the level of start-up activity and employment change. The main variables that shape the employment effects of new...

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Are cooperators effciency- or fair-minded? Evidence from a public goods experiment

Levati, M. Vittoria; Ploner, Matteo; Traub, Stefan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

JENA ECONOMIC RESEARCH PAPERS # 2007 – 067 Are cooperators efficiency- or fair-minded? Evidence … 1864-7057 The JENA ECONOMIC RESEARCH PAPERS is a joint publication of the Friedrich-Schiller- University and the Max … Jena, Germany. Tel.: +49 3641 686629; fax: +49 3641 686667. Jena Economic Research Papers 2007-067 1 Introduction In …

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Small Sample Properties of the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test with Discontinuous and Dependent Observations

Chlass, Nadine; Krueger, Jens J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

JENA ECONOMIC RESEARCH PAPERS # 2007 – 032 Small Sample Properties of the Wilcoxon Signed Rank ….jenecon.de ISSN 1864-7057 The JENA ECONOMIC RESEARCH PAPERS is a joint publication of the Friedrich-Schiller- University and the … information is Jena Economic Research Papers 2007-032 3 lost, decreasing overall test power and interpolating temporal trends …

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The Entrepreneurship-Philanthropy Nexus: Nonmarket Source of American Entrepreneurial Capitalism

Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David; Phillips, Ronnie J.; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

JENA ECONOMIC RESEARCH PAPERS # 2007 – 025 The Entrepreneurship-Philanthropy Nexus: Nonmarket … Desai www.jenecon.de ISSN 1864-7057 The JENA ECONOMIC RESEARCH PAPERS is a joint publication of the Friedrich …: entrepreneurship, philanthropy, capitalism, knowledge Jena Economic Research Papers 2007-025 2 I. Introduction The success of the …

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Don't aim too high: the potential costs of high aspirations

Matthey, Astrid; Dwenger, Nadja - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The higher our aspirations, the higher the probability that we have to adjust them downwards when forming more realistic expectations later on. This paper shows that the costs induced by high aspirations are not trivial. We ?rst develop a theoretical framework to identify the factors that...

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Valuation of Self-Insurance and Self-Protection under Ambiguity: Experimental Evidence

Ozdemir, Ozlem - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

JENA ECONOMIC RESEARCH PAPERS # 2007 – 034 Valuation of Self-Insurance and Self … Mauro and Maffioletti (1996) found no difference (no framing effect) between 2 Jena Economic Research Papers 2007-034 the … outcome and probabilistic ambiguity situations. 4 Jena Economic Research Papers 2007-034 probabilities, not much work is …

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Do Consumers Pay Voluntarily? The Case of Online Music

Regner, Tobias; Barria, Javier A. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

JENA ECONOMIC RESEARCH PAPERS # 2007 – 011 Do Consumers Pay Voluntarily? The Case of Online … Road, SW7 2BT, London Jena Economic Research Papers 2007-11 1. Introduction This paper covers and combines two areas … music are not well taken into account. 2 Jena Economic Research Papers 2007-11 setting where worker’s effort is not …

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Serial Entrepreneurship: Differentiating Direct from Latent Re-entrants

Amaral, A. Miguel; Baptista, Rui - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

JENA ECONOMIC RESEARCH PAPERS # 2007 – 044 Serial Entrepreneurship: Differentiating Direct …, Entrepreneurial opportunity; Human capital, Longitudinal data. 1 Jena Economic Research Papers 2007-044 1. INTRODUCTION It has … labor market status 2 Jena Economic Research Papers 2007-044 (paid employment, non-employment) in-between the first and …

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Firms' Differential Innovative Success and Market Dynamics

Cantner, Uwe - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper deals with innovative activities of firms, the resulting market success as well as the interdependencies between both. In a first theoretical part, different cases of those interdependencies are investigated by the way of a simple model based on replicator dynamics. It is shown that...

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