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Billionaires

Leeson, Peter; Sanandaji, Tino - 2012

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …

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The International Mobility of the Super-Rich

Sanandaji, Tino - 2012

their home community at higher rates than employees. Entrepreneurship too appears to be local, with private equity be …

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The Psychology of the Entrepreneur and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship

Bengtsson, Ola - 2015

Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …

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The Bright but Right View? A New Type of Evidence on Entrepreneurial Optimism

Bengtsson, Ola - 2014

Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...

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The bright but right view? A new type of evidence on entrepreneurial optimism

Bengtsson, Ola; Ekeblom, Daniel - 2014

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Product market reforms and incentives to innovate in Sweden

Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - 2013

The Swedish economy has developed rapidly since the mid-1990s relative to most comparable countries, in particular relative to almost all other EU-15 countries. We investigate two policy areas that are believed to have been important for the strong economic development in Sweden during the last...

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Stock option taxation: A missing piece in European innovation policy?

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2017

. Innovative entrepreneurship is a complex activity that normally requires support structures and collaboration by actors providing …

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Schumpeterian entrepreneurship in Europe compared to other industrialized regions

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2017

We examine whether Europe has an "entrepreneurship deficit" compared to other industrialized regions. Cross …-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small … business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe has the same or higher rates of entrepreneurship than the U.S. and East …

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Owner-level taxes and business activity

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2015

incorporates greater complexity in studying the link between taxes and business activity - particularly entrepreneurship. Dividend …

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Stock option taxation and venture capital activity: A cross-country comparison

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2016

One response to uncertainty and transactions costs in VC-finance is to compensate founders (and other key personnel) with stock options under complex contracts. Entrepreneurs are granted stock options contingent on firm performance, vesting and other criteria. While most countries tax stock...

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