Bank Profitability, Globalisation and Barriers to Entrepreneurship. A Panel Data Analysis for Europe and the United States (1999-2007) The crux of the present article is that if corporations (as bank clients) are profitable in a globalised economic environment and there are no barriers to...

In the present note, an effort will be made for a contribution to the economic theory by introducing a practical method to estimate entrepreneurship's reward. As an example, a regression, based on the estimation of entrepreneurship's reward, with baning panel data will yield the same main...

In the present note an effort will be made for a contribution to economic theory by extending the discussion paper Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Job Creation: The Case of Portugal by R. Baptista, V. Escarta and P. Madruga, MPI, # 0605, in which the authors conclude (among others)...

In the present note an effort will be made for a contribution to economic theory by estimating an econometric relationship between the foreign direct investment [FDI] and total economy's entrepreneurship reward [rEM]. This note is based mainly on the next two papers. First, it will be based on...

In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out that regarding primary and secondary education, countries with a higher level of income per head enjoy a better education quality. The sample covers all world. Data are taken from World Bank. The elaboration of these panel data is made...

In the present paper it will be pointed out with a panel data econometric model that taxation on entrepreneurship causes unemployment, but the impact of taxation is not equal among all countries. The estimation of the model is made feasible through the Eviews software package

In the present paper it will be shown empirically that smoking decreases labour productivity. Panel data analysis is based on a single equation model estimated through the Eviews software package. Our sample refers to the period 1993-2008 and covers many western countries, the United States and...

In the present paper it will be shown empirically that government health care expenditure reduces mortality. For this finding panel data are used covering European countries (2003-2007). These data are elaborated by means of Eviews software package

Dynamic modeling is general and recently the most interesting perspective to solve a dynamic economic problem based on Pontryagin’s maximum principle. Moreover, according to traditional economic theory, up to the middle of twentieth century, production functions are built without taking into...