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Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship
Hvide, Hans K.; Panos, Georgios A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610137
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011144207
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604486
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607007
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Management of Knowledge Workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757344
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Determinants of entrepreneurship. Is it all about the individual or the region?
Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
. Despite this fact many explanations to entrepreneurship only considers the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs. This is …. In this pa¬per we illustrate empirically that variations in the rate of entrepreneurship are explained not only in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739957
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Entrepreneurship, Social Capital, Governance and Regional Economic Development
Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012
entrepreneurship, social capital and governance. We conclude firstly that the relationships between regional entrepreneurship, regional … between regional entrepre-neurship, regional social capital, regional governance and regional economic development and some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742116
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Creativity as an integral element of social capital and its role for economic performance
Westlund, Hans; Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also … and values being distributed in them, social capital can promote entrepreneurship and innovation and thus economic growth …, but social capital can have an inhibiting effect on entrepreneurship and innovation. Social capital can contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818716
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Determinants of self-employment among commuters and non-commuters
Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014
-commuters. In the entrepreneurship literature it is claimed that the rich-ness and quality of an individual’s business, professional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818741
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Entrepreneurship, Social Capital, Governance and Regional Economic Development
Karlsson, Charlie - Institutionen för Industriell Ekonomi, Blekinge … - 2012
entrepreneurship, social capital and governance. We conclude firstly that the relationships between regional entrepreneurship, regional … between regional entrepreneurship, regional social capital, regional governance and regional economic development and some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551640