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Entrepreneurial exit in real and imagined markets

Stam, Erik; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Zwan, Peter van der - 2009 - Version: October 2009

Entrepreneurs exit their business due to selection mechanisms experienced in the market place. Next to this well known ex-post decision to exit, entrepreneurs select ex-ante whether they are willing to pursue an entrepreneurial career at all, or to give up these entrepreneurial intentions. This...

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The impact of gender diversity on the performance of business teams : evidence from a field experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011

This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...

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The entrepreneurial ladder and its determinants

Zwan, Peter van der; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Grilo, Isabel - 2007

Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of …

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Entrepreneurial moral hazard in income insurance

Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2011

We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....

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The urban growth potential of second-generation migrant entrepreneurs : a sectoral study on Amsterdam

Baycan Levent, Tüzin; Nijkamp, Peter; Şahín, Medíha - 2009

particular the way – and the extent to which – the choice for entrepreneurship is made by higher-educated young ethnic …

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Are entrepreneurs more optimistic and overconfident than managers and employees?

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2015

Empirical evidence supports the conventional wisdom that entrepreneurs are more optimistic and overconfident than others. However, the same holds true for top managers. In this lab-in-the-field experiment we directly compare the scores of entrepreneurs, managers and employees on a comprehensive...

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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011

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Insurance, entrepreneurial start-up, and performance

Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2014

Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...

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Ability dispersion and team performance

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous...

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The Schumpeterian entrepreneur : a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behavior, and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship

Block, Jörn; Fisch, Christian; Praag, Mirjam van - 2016

Innovative entrepreneurship is considered an important pillar for economic development and has sparked a lively … that takes stock of the academic knowledge about innovative entrepreneurship and summarizes the evidence from 102 empirical … innovative entrepreneurship. Based on this state-of-the-art literature review, directions for future research are discussed. …

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