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Hall, Robert E. - 2014

aversion, higher initial assets, preferences for entrepreneurship over employment, and optimistic beliefs about the payoffs …

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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quality and Quantity of Entrepreneurship for 32 Us States, 1988-2014

Guzman, Jorge - 2016

Assessing the state of American entrepreneurship requires not simply counting the quantity but also the initial quality … cycles as a driver of high-growth entrepreneurship, our results highlight the role of economic and institutional conditions …

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Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance

Guzman, Jorge - 2015

A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial … quality distribution. Second, we propose two new economic statistics for the measurement of entrepreneurship: the … Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI) and the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index (RECPI). We use these indices to offer a …

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Serial Entrepreneurship : Learning by Doing?

Lafontaine, Francine - 2014

in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 …

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Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship

Keuschnigg, Christian - 2006

an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …

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The Causal Link between Relative Age Effect and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from 17 Million Users Across 49 Years on Taobao

Wang, Youwei - 2018

We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Using events surrounding the Cultural Revolution and the issuance of the Compulsory Education...

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The Rise of State-Connected Private Owners in China

Bai, Chong-En; Hsieh, Chang-Tai; Song, Zheng (Michael); … - 2021

We use administrative registration records with information on the owners of all Chinese firms to document their connections through equity investments. We show that the largest private owners have direct equity ties with state owners, the next largest private owners have equity ties with...

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Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William - 2014

important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints … examining the relevance of financing constraints for entrepreneurship. We then introduce a framework that provides a unified …

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The First Deal : The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

Hellmann, Thomas F. - 2014

This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity...

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Sex Ratios, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth in the People's Republic of China

Wei, Shang-Jin - 2014

imbalance may also stimulate economic growth by inducing more entrepreneurship and hard work. First, new domestic private firms …

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