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 …

entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to … open a business. This has important consequences for entrepreneurship policies. For example, subsidies for small businesses …

-run impacts on experimental bank account use and almost entirely driven by growth in entrepreneurship. Temporary interest rates … directed to joint bank accounts had no detectable long-run impacts on entrepreneurship or income, but increased investment in …

We study how a mortgage reform that exogenously increased access to credit had an impact on entrepreneurship, using … point increase in entrepreneurship, equivalent to a 4% increase in the number of entrepreneurs. New entrants were more … benefit from the reform. Our results provide evidence that credit constraints do affect entrepreneurship, but that the overall …