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The Interaction Of Entrepreneurship And Institutions
April 15, 2009 12:00am PDT
Previous research, notably Baumol (1990), has highlighted the role of institutions in channeling entrepreneurial supply into productive, unproductive or destructive activities. However,...
Provided by: Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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Unbundled Institutions, Human Capital And Growth
August 1, 2008 12:00am PDT
The authors investigate the partial effects of institutions and human capital on growth. They find that cross-country regressions of the log-level of per capita GDP on instrumented measures of...
Provided by: Australian National University
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Institutions As Knowledge Capital: Ludwig M. Lachmann?s Interpretative Institutionalism
November 7, 2007 12:00am PST
The paper revisits the socioeconomic theory of the Austrian School economist Ludwig M. Lachmann. By showing that the common claim that Lachmann's idiosyncratic (read: eclectic and...
Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Institutional Entrepreneurship: An Introduction
October 7, 2010 12:00am PDT
In this introductory chapter to a collective volume, the authors build on Baumol's (1990) framework to categorize, catalog, and classify the budding research field that explores the interplay...
Provided by: Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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Do Institutions Matter For Regional Development?
January 1, 2010 12:00am PST
This paper discusses whether institutions matter for regional development and how to integrate them in regional development strategies. It finds that while institutions are crucial for economic...
Provided by: IMDEA
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Eidgenössisches Institut für Geistiges Eigentum (IGE), The Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
January 1, 2010 12:00am PST
Headquartered in Bern, the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property is responsible for intellectual property matters in Switzerland. Founded in 1888it became an independent public law...
Provided by: Hitachi Data Systems
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Two Views On Institutions And Development: The Grand Transition Vs The Primacy Of Institutions
June 30, 2007 12:00am PDT
The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly...
Provided by: Kiel Institute for the World Economy
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The Growth Effects Of Institutional Instability
June 2, 2009 12:00am PDT
Both institutional quality and institutional stability have been argued to stimulate economic growth. But to improve institutional quality, a country must endure a period of institutional change,...
Provided by: Lund University
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Globalization And Outcomes Of Institutional Competition
November 26, 2008 12:00am PST
Institutional competition, or competition of countries for mobile individuals and organizations by changing the system of formal institutions and adopting it to the demands of mobile groups and...
Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Impact Of Institutional Quality On Human Rights Abuses In Transition Economies
July 1, 2008 12:00am PDT
Purpose of this paper is to examine the direct effects of institutional quality on human rights abuses in transition economies. The authors make use of an alternative empirical approach for...
Provided by: University of Michigan
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How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation As A Dominating Institution In The Field Of American Business Schools
January 19, 2011 12:00am PST
In this paper there are two primary factors that can cause institutions to change. First, institutional entrepreneurs, including individual actors or small group of actors, are able to think and...
Provided by: Harvard Business School
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Institution Formation In Public Goods Games
August 1, 2006 12:00am PDT
Centralized sanctioning institutions are of utmost importance for overcoming free-riding tendencies and enforcing outcomes that maximize group welfare in social dilemma situations. However, little...
Provided by: University of Zurich
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Institutional Analysis To Explain The Success Of Moroccan Microfinance Institutions
February 12, 2010 12:00am PST
This paper looks at whether Morocco meets the usual criteria of a country where MFIs can succeed and what distinguishes Morocco from its North African neighbors (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt)...
Provided by: Solvay Business School
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Tools & Templates
Sample Institution Librarian Cover Letter
January 1, 2009 12:00am PST
Use this template as a cover letter to apply for the post of institution librarian. This institution librarian cover letter lets the hiring manager know the applicant is good with people and has...
Provided by: Job Bank USA
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Do Institutions Impact Innovation?
May 14, 2008 12:00am PDT
This paper contributes to the literature on institutions and economic growth by conducting an empirical examination on the links between innovation and institutions. Using cross-country data and...
Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Political Versus Economic Institutions In The Growth Process
April 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of...
Provided by: CESifo Group
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Risk, Institutions And Growth: Why England And Not China?
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
The authors analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions require individual-level risk-taking in pursuing productivity-enhancing activities...
Provided by: Stanford University
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Institutional Tax Clienteles And Payout Policy
July 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
This paper employs heterogeneity in institutional shareholder tax characteristics to identify the relationship between firm payout policy and tax incentives. Analysis of a panel of firms matched...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Youth Dependency, Institutions, And Economic Growth
May 28, 2007 12:00am PDT
The present paper shows empirically that the youth dependency ratio (the population below working age divided by the population of working age) reduces economic growth even after controlling for...
Provided by: Loughborough University
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Institutional Prerequisites Of Financial Fragility Within Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis: A Proposal In Terms Of "Institutional Fragilityâ
July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
The relevancy of Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis (FIH) in the current (and still unfolding) crisis has been clearly acknowledged by both economists and regulators. While most papers...
Provided by: Levy Economics Institute
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