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UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INAFRICA’S LEAST DEVELOPEDCOUNTRIES
Brixiová, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010
In Africa’s least developed countries (LDCs), escape from poverty and convergence to livingstandards of more advanced economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate growth and job creation. So far,however,...
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Accumulation and Productivity Growth in Industrializing Economies
Robertson, Peter E.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2003
Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of...
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Online accessibility of academic articles and the diversity of economics
Boppart, Timo; Staub, Kevin E. - 2012
A key aspect of generating new ideas is drawing from different elements of past knowledge and combining them into a new idea. In such a process, the diversity of ideas plays a central role. This paper examines the empirical question of how the internet affected the diversity of new research by...
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Sustainability of Public Debt and Budget Deficit: Panel cointegration analysis for the European Union Member countries
Prohl, Silika; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006
In this study, we analyse the sustainability of fiscal policy of EU member countries within the panel cointegration and …
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Impact of climate smart agriculture on food security: an agent-based analysis
Bazzana, Davide; Foltz, Jeremy D.; Zhang, Ying - 2021
The study proposes an agent-based model to investigate how adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) affects food security. The analysis investigates the role of social and ecological pressures (i.e. community network, climate change and environmental externalities) on the adoption of physical...
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Evaluation with dynamic reference: Sustainable investment
Vinokur, Leon - 2009
The Prospect Theory proposes to assess outcomes relative to a reference point (or benchmark). Although the literature recognises the relevance of dynamic benchmarks, most of the applications of Prospect Theory employ static reference points (or a status quo). This paper aims to develop a...
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Measuring Sustainability with Macroeconomic Data for India
Dasgupta, Purnamita; Gupta, Shikha - 2008
This paper investigates certain macro data on the Indian economy to draw inferences on the sustainability of the … economic growth experienced over the last couple of decades. Interpreting sustainability in terms of the maintenance of … aligned with the consumption path. Investment estimates are found to be a reliable indicator of sustainability of the future …
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Exploring OECD SDGs Pilot City's 50-Year Time Series Data and Its Environmental Kuznets Curves
Vuong, Quan Hoang - 2019
Can green growth policies help protect the environment while keeping the industry growing and infrastructure expanding? This study applies Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method on the 50-years' time series data, from 1967 to 2015, of Kitakyushu City, Japan, and found mixed evidence for...
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The role of verifiability and privacy in the strategic provision of performance feedback: Theory and experimental evidence
Ertaç, Seda; Koçkesen, Levent; Özdemir, Duygu - 2015
We theoretically and experimentally analyze the role of verifiability and privacy in strategic performance feedback using a 'one principal-two agent' context with real effort. We confirm the theoretical prediction that information transmission occurs only in verifiable feedbackmechanisms and...
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Strategic feedback in teams: Theory and experimental evidence
Ertaç, Seda; Gümren, Mert; Koçkesen, Levent - 2017
FeedbackWe theoretically and experimentally analyze public and private feedback in teams that are characterized by different performance technologies. We consider a setting where the principal can provide truthful information on agents' performances or strategically withhold feedback. We find...
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