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Gibrat's Law and the Firm Size / Firm Growth Relationship in Italian Services
Piergiovanni, R.; Santarelli, E.; Klomp, L.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper - in search of further evidence supporting the results recently … obtained for a large sample of Dutch firms in the hospitality industry - we examine whether the assumption that growth rates … are independent of firm size can be rejected for the services, as it has been for manufacturing, also in the case of Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256728
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Gibrat's Law and the Firm Size / Firm Growth Relationship in Italian Services
Piergiovanni, R.; Santarelli, E.; Klomp, L.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper - in search of further evidence supporting the results recently … obtained for a large sample of Dutch firms in the hospitality industry - we examine whether the assumption that growth rates … are independent of firm size can be rejected for the services, as it has been for manufacturing, also in the case of Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137253
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Determinants of Enterprise restructuring in Transition: Description of a Survey in Russian Industry
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
To achieve sustainable economic growth in transition countries, it is crucial that enterpriseperformance is improved. However, it is not a priori clear which factors are essential for this. ForRussia, data to investigate the potential determinants of enterprise performance is scarce.Therefore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256633
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Determinants of Enterprise restructuring in Transition: Description of a Survey in Russian Industry
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Institute - 2000
To achieve sustainable economic growth in transition countries, it is crucial that enterprise performance is improved. However, it is not a priori clear which factors are essential for this. For Russia, data to investigate the potential determinants of enterprise performance is scarce....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137157
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The Spatial-Institutional Architecture of Firms’ Innovative Behaviour
Vaz, Eric de Noronha; Vaz, Teresa de Noronha; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
, while knowledge often surpasses the firms’ internal mechanisms, because, frequently, it is a spatially endogenous … database comprises an extensive set of Portuguese innovative firms, spatially identified and able to engage in spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256132
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Risk Pooling through Transfers in Rural Ethiopia
Pan, Lei - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
It is often assumed that transfers received from governments, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), friends and relatives help rural households to pool risk. In this paper I investigate two functions of transfers in Ethiopia: risk pooling and income redistribution. Unlike most of the literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257209
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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience
Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136903
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Tax Evasion and the Source of Income
Gërxhani, Klarita; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
A series of experiments in Albania and the Netherlands give us the opportunity to compare behavioral patterns related to tax evasion. Subjects have to decide between a random 'registered' income, the realization of which will be known to the experimenter for sure, and a random 'unregistered'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137024
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How important are Institutions for Growth in Transition Countries?
Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries over the period 1990-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions are significant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment (FDI), the latter in turn being important for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144418
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Informal Sector in Developed and less Developed Countries: A Literature Survey
Gerxhani, Klarita - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
The main goal of this study is two-fold: (1) to provide a general overview of the contributions to the literature on the informal sector, with a special focus on the Public Choice approach; and (2) to compare these contributions across two institutionally different types of countries: developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144460