In this paper it is shown that barriers to entrepreneurship increase unemployment rate. This will be feasible by using panel data econometric analysis. Data are annual and cover Western European countries, Japan and the United States for the period 1998-2003. The elaboration of these data is...

In this paper a distinction will be made between manager and owner and it will be attempted to estimate numerically the country’s total economy’s entrepreneurial remuneration by a common measure across countries and show econometrically the positive impact of total economy’s...

A lot of research has been done on the CEO pay determinant factors. However, findings do not reach a single conclusion. To overcome this, in the present paper an effort will be made to introduce a unique worldwide formula for CEO remuneration and through this it will be attempted to relate CEO...

In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out that government debt as a percentage of GDP has a negative impact (among others) on banking profitability. This impact will be even worse when this debt as a percentage of GDP exceeds a certain critical level. The sample covers during the...

In the present paper an attempt will be made to show econometrically with panel data that as globalization increases, banking risk goes also up but not by as much. Panel data are elaborated by means of Eviews software package. The sample covers during 1999–2007 Western Europe and the United States

In the present paper it will be pointed out with a panel data econometric model that government debt puts banking sector at stake since the volume of not performing loans goes up. The estimation of the model is made feasible through the Eviews software package. The present paper is based on...

In the present paper it will be pointed out econometrically that entrepreneurial calibre improves Balassa index. The contribution of this paper is that a new method to estimate entrepreneurial calibre will be introduced. Data are annual and cover most Western European countries and the USA for...

In the present paper an attempt will be made to examine whether ceo pay equalization (convergence) takes place in the Western World. This analysis will be based on the method of estimation of entrepreneurial reward according to (Georgiou, 2009). It will be shown that there is no convergence in...

The contribution of the present paper is twofold. First, it will be pointed out that government debt has a positive effect on interest rates. Second, it will be shown that interest rates have a negative impact on entrepreneurship. In short, it will be concluded that government deficit (through...