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Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2016

This paper examines gender differences in entrepreneurial performance and their links with start-up capital utilizing a search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. The results show that entrepreneurs of both genders with higher start-up capital record better...

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Credit Constraints and Productive Entrepreneurship in Africa

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2011

productive entrepreneurship and private sector employment in Africa …

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Why Entrepreneurs Choose Risky R&D Projects - but still not risky enough

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Hjertstrand, Per; … - 2016

business stealing effect. Commercialization support induces entrepreneurship but may lead to mediocre entrepreneurship by … inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the … type of entrepreneurship. We develop a regression framework to test empirical predictions of the model. Within our …

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Creative destruction and productive preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2013

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Such preemptive acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate...

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Credit Constraints and ProductiveEntrepreneurship in Africa

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina; Brixiova, Zuzana; Ndikumana, Leonce - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

entrepreneurship andprivate sector employment in Africa.... …

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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2017

This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment as well as skill gaps where one of the equilibrium outcomes is a low-productivity trap. The paper tests the implications of the model using a cross-sectional dataset including...

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

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2019

This paper analyzes the role of networks in access of women entrepreneurs to start-up capital and firm performance in Eswatini, a country with one of the highest female unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first shows that higher initial capital is associated with better sales performance for...

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