Entrepreneurship : The Role of Extreme Events

We use aggregate country data as well as individual level survey to uncover, for the first time, the effect of extreme events such as natural disasters and terrorist attacks on entrepreneurial activity. We find that natural disasters and terrorist attacks influence individual perceptions of the rewards to entrepreneurship and, more surprisingly, extreme events affect entrepreneurship rates positively in a robust and significant way

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Brück, Tilman ; Llussa, Fernanda ; Tavares, José
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Unternehmer \| Entrepreneurs \| Entrepreneurship \| Entrepreneurship approach \| Katastrophe \| Disaster \| Terrorismus \| Terrorism
Description of contents:	Abstract [papers.ssrn.com]

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 27, No. S1, 2011 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments 2011 erstellt Volltext nicht verfügbar
Classification:	L26 - Entrepreneurship ; Q54 - Climate; Natural Disasters ; C83 - Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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