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Entrepreneurship : Cause or Consequence of Financial Optimism?

Dawson, Christopher J. - 2012

psychological disposition and environmental factors, as theory requires if optimism is to be a causal influence on entrepreneurship …

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Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship

Hvide, Hans K. - 2013

A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but perform worse. We test these predictions with two risk tolerance proxies: stock market participation and personal leverage. Using investment data for 400,000 individuals, we...

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Transitioning from Solo Self-Employed to Microbusiness Employer : Local Economic Environment or Owner Characteristics?

Henley, Andrew - 2019

relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …

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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Becker, Sascha O. - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?

Henley, Andrew - 2014

national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies for 2011 and 2012, focusing on the individual rather than on the business venture. Recent data … cultural environment for entrepreneurship. They also suggest that policy-makers may wish to pay closer attention to the …

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