I will address eight common claims about bitcoin: 1. Physical bitcoins exist; 2. The founder of bitcoin is a person called Satoshi Nakamoto; 3. Bitcoin is mainly used for criminal activity; 4. A lack of security plagues bitcoin; 5. Mining is a waste of energy; 6. Bitcoin too small today to be an...

Die Unternehmensdatenbank der Weltbank stellt Indikatoren bereit, anhand derer sich unternehmensbezogene Regulierungen von mehr als 130 Ländern vergleichen lassen, unter anderem auch Daten und Informationen zur Gründung von Unternehmen. Danach können kleine und mittelgroße Unternehmen in...

Die Unternehmensdatenbank der Weltbank stellt Indikatoren bereit, anhand derer sich unternehmensbezogene Regulierungen von mehr als 130 Ländern vergleichen lassen, unter anderem auch Daten und Informationen zur Gründung von Unternehmen. Danach können kleine und mittelgroße Unternehmen in...

In this paper we highlight the benefits of increased competition through reform of rules and regulations that may hinder competition and innovation. The paper discusses details from several papers that shed light on the nature of rules and regulations in various markets such as innovation,...

Imagine this: a mere century ago, the purchasing power of an average American was one-tenth of what it is today. But what will it take to sustain that growth through the next century? And what can be said about economic growth to aspiring nations seeking higher standards of living for their...

This article examines the nature of the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's Empagran decision through the lens of the global vitamins cartel, using legal and economic analysis and also empirical data to describe the effect. The article commences with a discussion of the analytic approach adopted...

Over the course of a quarter of a millennium industrial capitalism has emerged from four deep recessions brought on by the bursting of commodity bubbles to achieve sustained economic growth by instituting progressive policies. These policies promote market success by reinforce entrepreneurial...

The aim of this study is twofold: (a) to report a flow analysis based on trends of steel across some leading geo-economic players; (b) to analyse the long-term relationship between steel consumption and economic growth by the sensitivity of the demand of steel consumption to a change in the...

Social Entrepreneurship as a concept, while new to some, has become a buzzword in recent years; so much so that its usage far outpaces its understanding. That state of affairs is troubling because it risks undermining the promise of social entrepreneurship (Pirson & Bloom, 2012), while at the...