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Initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial venture performance
Praag, Mirjam van; Wit, Gerrit de; Bosma, Niels - 2004
This article investigates empirically whether and to what extent initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial performance once the venture has been started. Prior empirical research in this area could investigate this issue only indirectly by lack of data. The key contribution of this...
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Turbulence, flexibility and performance of the long-lived small firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C. - 2003
This paper focuses on a new concern in the small firm’s literature, namely what makes a small firm stay in business for a long time. It reflects a change in economic policy, away from an emphasis on volume of start-ups to an emphasis on quality of start-ups. The basic hypothesis is that...
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High performance in complex spatial systems : a eelf-organizing mapping approach with reference to the Netherlands
Kourtit, Karima; Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013
This paper addresses the performance of creative firms from the perspective of complex spatial systems. Based on an extensive high-dimensional database on both the attributes of individual creative firms in the Netherlands and a series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors...
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Micro moments database for cross-country analysis of ICT, innovation, and economic outcomes
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Hagsten, Eva; Polder, Michael - 2017
This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments database(MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked...
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Altruism to strangers for our own sake : domestic effects from immigration
Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012
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Between spilling over and boiling down : network-mediated spillovers, absorptive capacity and productivity in European regions
Cortinovis, Nicola; Oort, Frank van - 2017
Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge spillovers: trade, co-patenting and geographical proximity. Both our panel and instrumental variable estimations for European regions suggest that network relations are crucial sources...
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Cut-point shift and index shift in self-reported health
Lindeboom, Maarten; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2003
index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National PopulationHealth Survey data. The McMaster Health Utility …
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Can we measure individual risk attitudes in a survey?
Ding, Xiaohao; Hartog, Joop; Sun, Yuze - 2009 - This version 11‐12‐2009
We combine a survey and an experiment with real pay-out among Peking University students to measure and validate … individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions … parental income, risk attitudes are domain-specific. Correlations between survey measures and experimental measures, are in the …
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Cut-point shift and index shift in self-reported health
Lindeboom, Maarten; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001792541
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Does disagreement amongst forecasters have predictive value?
Legerstee, Rianne; Franses, Philip Hans - 2010
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