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Tåg, Joacim; Åstebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - In: European economic review : EER 89 (2016), pp. 129-147

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Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs through the Business Cycle

Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2011

We construct a simple model of occupational choice among agents with differing abilities. The fraction of agents creating new businesses who are low ability rises during recessions. Thus, cohorts born during recessions are on average lower quality: their businesses yield lower initial earnings,...

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Entrepreneurs: Jacks of all Trades or Hobos?

Astebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2007

entrepreneurship and investment in generalist skills are driven by a taste for variety. …

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Entrepreneurs, Managers, and the Organization of Work

Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2007

This paper presents an explicit model of the entrepreneur’s role in organizing the work undertaken by employees. The model assumes that agents vary in their ability to carry out this task, and so in one sense the model is a special case of Lucas’ [Bell Journal of Economics, 9, pp. 508-523,...

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Experience and Entrepreneurship

Rider, Christopher I.; Thompson, Peter; Kacperczyk, … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

entrepreneurship among movers. The first dataset consists of 1,248, U.S. lawyers who were forced to seek alternative employment after …

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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Thursby, Marie - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty … commercialization; entrepreneurship or licenses to established firms, as well as on probabilities of successful commercialization. We … find that the US system is less conducive to entrepreneurship than the Swedish system if established firms have some …

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Why Entrepreneurs Choose Risky R&D Projects - But Still Not Risky Enough

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

. We also show that 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. Using Swedish patent citation data, we find empirical support for predictions of the model. …

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Employee Compensation in Entrepreneurial Companies

Bengtsson, Ola; Hand, John R. M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in …

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Hierarchies, the Small Firm Effect, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swedish Microdata

Tåg, Joacim; Åstebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

enter entrepreneurship, to become self-employed, and to switch to another employer. The effects of layers are much stronger … for business creation than for jobswitching and they are stronger for entrepreneurship than for self-employment. However …

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