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Henrekson, Magnus, and Lars Persson (2026). “Why Is Competition in the European Football Market Failing, and What Should Be Done About It?”. Economic Affairs 46(1), 59–75. doi.org/10.1111/ecaf.70024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18354

Why Is Competition in the European Football Market Failing, and What Should Be Done About It?

Magnus Henrekson, Lars Persson

Henrekson, Magnus, and Lars Persson (2026). “Why Is Competition in the European Football Market Failing, and What Should Be Done About It?”. Economic Affairs 46(1), 59–75. doi.org/10.1111/ecaf.70024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18334

Employment Impacts of the CHIPS Act

Bilge Erten, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Eric Verhoogen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18201

Minimum Unit Pricing, Alcohol Consumption and Infant Health: Evidence from the Alice Springs Liquor Supply Plan

Steve Guthridge, Stefanie Schurer, Paige J. Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18179

In Pursuit of the Green Transition—Electricity at Any Cost?

Per Fahlén, Magnus Henrekson, Mats Nilsson

Fahlén , Per, Magnus Henrekson, and Mats Nilsson (2026). “In Pursuit of the Green Transition—Electricity at Any Cost?”. In Magnus Henrekson, Christian Sandström and Mikael Stenkula (Eds.), A Green Entrepreneurial State? Exploring the Pitfalls of Green Deals (149–172). Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-15512-2_8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17880

What Economists Should Know About the 340B Drug Discounting Program

Charles Courtemanche, Joseph Garuccio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17834

The Green Transformation and the Costs of Market Fundamentalism

Tom Krebs, Isabella Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17820

Exposure to Regulation and Income Inequality in Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the U.S. over the Past Half-Century

Andrey Stoyanov, Nick Zubanov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17794

Climate Technology Entrepreneurship: A Primer

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17536

How Regulations Impact the Labor Market: A Review of the Literatures on Product and Labor Market Regulations

David Alzate, Eliana Carranza, Joana Duran-Franch, Truman Packard, Celina Proffen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17075

The African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index: Conceptual, Methodological and Empirical Flaws and the Way Forward

Wim Naudé

published online in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 25 April 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16835

Regulating Manufacturing FDI: Local Labor Market Responses to a Protectionist Policy in Indonesia

Esther Gehrke, Robert Genthner, Krisztina Kis-Katos

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16705

The Role of Trainee Selection in the Effectiveness of Vocational Training: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Nepal

Shyamal Chowdhury, Syed Hasan, Uttam Sharma

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16563

The Role of Regulation and Regional Government Quality for High Growth Firms: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Sara Amoroso, Benedikt Herrmann, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Regional Studies, 2024, 58 (9), 1710–1727

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16483

Destructive Digital Entrepreneurship

Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé and B. Power (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Elgar, 2024, 292–328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16408

Is Productive Entrepreneurship Getting Scarcer? A Reflection on the Contemporary Relevance of Baumol's Typology

Maria Minniti, Wim Naudé, Erik Stam

published in: W. Naudé and B. Power (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Elgar, 2024, 18 - 44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15779

Investment Grants and Firms' Productivity: How Effective Is a Grant Booster Shot?

Fernando Alexandre, Miguel Chaves, Miguel Portela

published in: Small Business Economics, 2025, 64, 1601–1641

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15295

Safeguarding Consumers through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality, 1880-1910

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Michael McKelligott, Daniel I. Rees

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14729

Employer Sanctions: A Policy with a Pitfall?

Oded Stark, Marcin Jakubek

published in: Robert M. Sauer (ed.): World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration Volume 1: Immigration and the Labor Market: A Global View of Assimilation and its Aftermath, 2024, 205–223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14299

More Than a Ban on Smoking? Behavioural Spillovers of Smoking Bans in the Workplace

Joan Costa-Font, Luca Salmasi, Sarah Zaccagni

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2025, 58, 101512

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14082

The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, John Van Reenen

published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (11), 2894 -2936

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13875

Export-Led Growth after COVID-19: The Case of Portugal

Wim Naudé, Martin Cameron

published in: Notas Economicas, 2021, 52 (1), 7–53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13835

Extreme Events, Entrepreneurial Start-Ups, and Innovation: Theoretical Conjectures

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

published in: Economics of Disaster and Climate Change, 2021, 5, 329–353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13829

Industrialization under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after COVID-19

Wim Naudé

published in: Covid Economics, 2020, 55 (4), 100-121.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13760

The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India

Swati Dhingra, Stephen Machin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13436

Entrepreneurial Recovery from COVID-19: Decentralization, Democratization, Demand, Distribution, and Demography

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12932

Policies in Hard Times: Assessing the Impact of Financial Crises on Structural Reforms

Gunes Gokmen, Tommaso Nannicini, Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato, Chris Papageorgiou

published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2529-2552

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12777

Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye, Mona Said

published in: Economic Modelling, 2020, 85, 367-380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12631

Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme

Max Nathan

published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (9), 1104138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12198

Networks, Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurial Performance in Africa: Evidence from Eswatini

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye

published in: A. Bullough, D. Hechavarria, C. Brush and L. Edelman (eds.), Programs, Policies, & Practices: Fostering High-Growth Women’s Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12179

Slippery Fish: Enforcing Regulation under Subversive Adaptation

Andres Gonzalez-Lira, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12042

Marshallian vs Jacobs Effects: Which One Is Stronger? Evidence for Russia Unemployment Dynamics

Olga Demidova, Alena Kolyagina, Francesco Pastore

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020, 55, 244-258.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11941

Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs: A New Narrative for African Manufacturing

Wim Naudé

published in: Journal of International Affairs, 2019, 72 (1), 143 - 158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11788

The Impact of Employment Protection on the Industrial Wage Structure

John S. Heywood, Mary O'Mahony, W. Stanley Siebert, Ana Rincon-Aznar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11582

The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation: Evidence from European Countries

Céline Piton, François Rycx

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2019, 9 (2), 1-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11498

Political Connections and Firms: Network Dimensions

Maurizio Bussolo, Simon Commander, Stavros Poupakis

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (1), 256–280,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11479

Organisational Accreditation and Worker Upskilling in Britain

Getinet Astatike Haile

published as 'Organisational accreditation, workforce training and perceptions of performance' in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2021, 52 (4), 291-314

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11196

Public Funding and Corporate Innovation

Mathias Beck, Martin Junge, Ulrich Kaiser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11195

Cities and Entrepreneurs over Time: Like a Horse and Carriage?

Wim Naudé

revised version published as 'Urbanisation and Entrepreneurship in Development: Like a Horse and Carriage? 'in: Dastbaz,M., Naudé, W. and Manoochehri, J. (eds.), Smart Futures, Challenges of Urbanisation, and Social Sustainability, Springer, 2018, 29 - 47

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11092

Microdata for Social Sciences and Policy Evaluation as a Public Good

Ugo Trivellato

published in: Crato N. and P. Paruolo (eds,), Data-driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Microdata is Transforming Policy Design, Springer, 2019, 27- 45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11011

Before It Gets Better: The Short-Term Employment Costs of Regulatory Reforms

Andrea Bassanini, Federico Cingano

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (1), 127-157

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10897

Do Environmental Regulations Effect FDI Decisions? The Pollution Haven Hypothesis Revisited

Haeyeon Yoon, Almas Heshmati

published in: Science and Public Policy, 2021, 48 (1), 122 - 131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10297

Privatisation in Developing Countries: What Are the Lessons of Recent Experience?

Saul Estrin, Adeline Pelletier

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2018, 33 (1), 65–102,

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