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enterprises. The empirical results show that Internet-based technologies were an important enabler of innovation in the year 2003 …This article analyzes the relationship between the usage of Internet-based technologies, different types of innovation …. It was found that all studied types of innovation, including Internet-enabled and non-Internet-enabled product or process …
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The study provides theoretical insights and empirical evidence on the emergence of different types and degrees of entrepreneurial innovativeness. The results suggest that entrepreneurial innovativeness depends both on individual factors and on the environment in which the individual lives. In...
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Analyzing a cross-country panel of 16 OECD countries from 2002 to 2005, we find that higher unemployment benefits crowd out nascent entrepreneurial activity. Our results hold regardless of entrepreneurial motivation (necessity or opportunity) and entrepreneurial type (imitative or innovative).
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We are currently investigating genetic influences on self-employment in an international research consortium using genome-wide association studies (GWAS). By meta-analysing results from numerous independent samples we address identification issues arising from multiple testing. To our knowledge,...
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the installed-base-effect seemed to play no role. We perform our estimation with a discrete time hazard rate model that …
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We study a unique sample of 1,547 nascent entrepreneurs in Germany and analyze which factors are associated with their …
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The modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) refers to the sensitivity of statistical research results to the initial spatial nomenclature used. Despite a substantial literature in the related field of geography on the potential influence of the MAUP, the urban economic modeling tradition has not...
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Conventional studies of bilateral trade patterns specify a log-normal gravity equation for empirical estimation …
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Recent empirical studies in regional science and urban economics show that agglomeration economies may be one source of the uneven distribution of economic activities and economic growth across cities and regions. At the same time, the body of research into the importance of agglomeration...
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We build a theoretical model that relates house price, city size and the expected future growth of demand for housing. Our model combines the Alonso-Mills model on urban economics with insights from financial economics on house prices. Estimating the model for cities in the US, we empirically...
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