A novel method is applied to evaluate the effect of capital constraints on entrepreneurial performance on a panel of 1 …,000 Dutch entrepreneurs. We find that initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurs in their performance, even when we … control for various human capital and other factors that might affect both performance and credit scoring outcomes. We use a …

This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated … among more affluent parents whose children flee. In contrast, among less prosperous parents, integration in public education … rich, who can resort to private education. I also analyze the overall society-wide effect of the integration policy and …

. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants “switches off” observable and unobservable differences in …-ethnics increases migrants’ interaction cost with natives and thus reduces the likelihood of integration. …

-West border; political integration is not rapidly followed by economic integration. Instead, we estimate that it takes at least …

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds’ designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …

evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of … information and fewer assumptions than traditional techniques such as Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis …

problems in the home country, with a lesser factor being the weak performance of the foreign subsidiary. …

citizens have a considerably higher probability of being in favour of the process of EU integration. …

measures of workers’ productivity and trustworthiness and make this information available to potential employers. Our data show …