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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …
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Where do new firms locate? The effects of agglomeration on the formation and scale of operations of new firms in Punjab
Haroon, Maryiam; Chaudhry, Azam - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
The formation of new firms is an important determinant of economic development and the industrial organization literature highlights agglomeration as one of the main factors affecting the formation and scale of operations of new firms. This paper is one of the first to use developing country...
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Grant support and exporting activity
Görg, Holger; Henry, Michael; Strobl, Eric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines a non-parametric matching procedure with a difference-in-differences estimator in order to deal...
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Wage competition with international capital mobility
Lorz, Jens Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997
This paper analyzes wage competition between national trade unions caused by the international mobility of capital. Perfect capital mobility leads to a Bertrand result for the outcome of wage competition: A pure strategy equilibrium implies full employment in all countries. It is shown that such...
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Environmental tax reform with irreversible investment, technological progress and unemployment
Scholz, Christian M. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997
This paper analyzes if unemployment can be reduced through labor tax cuts that are financed in a revenue neutral way through energy tax increases. In contrast to other papers on this topic we consider investment behavior of firms in energy saving technologies, irreversibilities, embodied...
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Economic and Political Governance in Germany's Social Market Economy
Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004
Germany’s system of economic and political governance strongly relies on group decision-making and consensus to solve economic issues. This approach relates to a wide spectrum of decisions, including the social partners with the trade unions and the employers’ associations in wage formation,...
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Optimal Diversity in Investments with Recombinant Innovation
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Zeppini-Rossi, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Structural Change and Economic Dynamics</I>, 2013, 24, 141-156.<P> We address the notion of dynamic, endogenous diversity and its role in theories of investment and technological innovation. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the...</p></i>
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The Pollution Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions: Asymmetry, Disaggregation, and Multilateralism
Swart, Julia; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This paper studies the impact of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) on Carbon Dioxide emissions. Carbon Dioxide is the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas. A global problem that requires a multilateral solution. To take this into account we introduce an institutional variable, which...
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Modelling R&D and Innovation Support Systems – Analysis of Regional Cluster Structures in Innovation in Portugal
Vaz, Teresa de Noronha; Galindo, Purificación Vicente; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper offers a new methodology to identify R&D and innovation clusters, on the basis of a regional analysis of innovation support systems in Portugal. Using a web-based inventory of R&D and innovation agencies, an extensive data base is created. This data set is next analyzed by means of...
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