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Ethnic Chinese Networks in International Trade

Rauch, James E. - 2011

Ethnic Chinese networks, as proxied by the product of ethnic Chinese population shares, are found in 1980 and 1990 to have increased bilateral trade both within Southeast Asia and for other country pairs. Their effects within Southeast Asia are much greater for differentiated than for...

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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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Financial Integration, Entrepreneurial Risk and Global Imbalances

Angeletos, George-Marios - 2014

How does financial integration impact capital accumulation, current-account dynamics, and cross-country inequality? We investigate this question within a two-country, general-equilibrium, incomplete-markets model that focuses on the importance of idiosyncratic entrepreneurial risk-- a risk that...

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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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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 Effect of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship

Djankov, Simeon - 2010

We present new data on effective corporate income tax rates in 85 countries in 2004. The data come from a survey, conducted jointly with PricewaterhouseCoopers, of all taxes imposed on quot;the samequot; standardized mid-size domestic firm. In a cross-section of countries, our estimates of the...

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Demographics and Entrepreneurship

Liang, James - 2014

Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …

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Dinner Table Human Capital and Entrepreneurship

Hvide, Hans K. - 2018

We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or …

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