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Entrepreneurship Training, Risk Aversion and Other Personality Traits: Evidence from a Random Experiment
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
A growing literature examines the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship, but no previous studies explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To address selection issues, we use novel data from...
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The Green Bean Coffee House: An exploration of the specialty coffee Industry and sustainable business practices
Hunt, Evan - 2009
, as well as enables the buyer and producer, as business partners, to set the price and production standards.The coffee … house itself is the perfect medium for exploring the principles and benefits of sustainable business. Not only because of … information gather from primary and secondary sources I have formulated a fully developed “sustainable” business model that goes …
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Family-Owned Businesses: Determinants of Business Success and Profitability
Wallace, Jeffrey S. - 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine many factors associated with family-owned businesses that lead to business … success and profitability. The panel data used in this study came from the 1997 and 2000 waves of the National Family Business … Study (NFBS). Many independent variables from the 1997 wave (e.g., age, gender, managerial activities, business size, home …
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Essays on India’s Economy: Growth and Innovation
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
This is a collection of essays written for the Financial Express, an Indian financial daily. The common themes of these essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from August 2010 to June 2014, are issues of growth and innovation in India, considered in two sequential parts, each part...
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Essays on India in a Global Context    
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
This is a collection of essays written for the Financial Express, an Indian financial daily. The common theme of these essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from October 2010 to May 2014, is the issue of how India is finding its place in the world, after a history of colonization...
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Essays on India’s Economy: Perspectives on Policy Reform
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
This is a collection of essays written for the Financial Express, an Indian financial daily. The common theme of these essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from June 2010 to March 2014, is the India’s struggles with economic policy reform. The essays are organized into...
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Essays on India’s Political Economy    
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
This is a collection of essays written for the Financial Express, an Indian financial daily. The common theme of these essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from September 2010 to June 2014, is the issue of governance in India, and how politics combines with societal and...
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Outsourcing and Pass-Through
Hellerstein, Rebecca; Villas-Boas, Sofia B. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2010
A large share of international trade occurs through intra-firm transactions. We show that this common cross-border organization of the firm has implications for the well-documented incomplete transmission of shocks across such borders. We present new evidence of an inverse relationship between a...
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First-Run Smoking Presentations in U.S. Movies 1999-2003
Polansky, Jonathan R.; Glantz, Stanton A. PhD - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2004
Smoking among American adults fell by half between 1950 and 2002, yet smoking on U.S. movie screens reached historic heights in 2002, topping levels observed a half century earlier. Tobacco’s comeback in movies has serious public health implications, because smoking on screen stimulates...
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Smoking Presentation Trends in U.S. Movies 1991-2008
Titus, Kori; Glantz, Stanton PhD; Polansky, Jonathan R. - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2009
Tobacco presentations in commercial motion pictures are of serious public health concern because cumulative exposure to this imagery causes large numbers of adolescents to start smoking. An estimated 52% of adolescent smoking initiation is attributed to this exposure. To examine trends in the...
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