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Do cognitive able societies nurture entrepreneurs?

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  • Antonio Rodríguez Andrés

    (Universidad del Norte)

  • Raufhon Salahodjaev

    (University of South Florida)

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The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of cognitive skills on the cost of start-up business procedures. Recent empirical studies have identified intelligence to be instrumental to institutional arrangements. Our empirical findings suggest that higher cognitive skills lead to lower costs of start-up business procedures.

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  • Antonio Rodríguez Andrés & Raufhon Salahodjaev, 2016. "Do cognitive able societies nurture entrepreneurs?," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 36(3), pages 1453-1462.
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    Intelligence; entrepreneurship; instrumental variables; cross-country.;
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    JEL classification:

    • L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
    • C2 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables

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