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Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian D. - 2008 - Revised version (v2.0)

Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...

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Ageing and Entrepreneurial Preferences

Kautonen, Teemu - 2015

Previous research on age and entrepreneurship assumed homogeneity and downplayed age-related differences in the motives … and aims underlying enterprising behaviour. We argue that the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship influences how the level …

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Is productive entrepreneurship getting scarcer? : a reflection on the contemporary relevance of Baumol's typology

Minniti, Maria; Naudé, Wim; Stam, Erik - 2023

We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is … the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less productive, due to the unintended effects of entrepreneurship policies … adopted widely in Western economies. These have straight-jacketed, distracted and zombified entrepreneurship. Removing these …

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"I think I can, I think I can": Overconfidence and Entrepreneurial Behavior

Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - 2005

Many firms fail shortly after inception. Yet individuals continue starting businesses. Prewar economists such as Keynes invoked animal spirits and stressed psychological factors in their explanations of economic behavior. Using a large sample obtained from surveys conducted in 18 countries, we...

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Is Productive Entrepreneurship Getting Scarcer? A Reflection on the Contemporary Relevance of Baumol's Typology

Minniti, Maria; Naudé, Wim; Stam, Erik - 2023

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Unemployment benefits crowd out nascent entrepreneurial activity

Koellinger, Philipp (contributor); … - 2008

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Entrepreneurial Overconfidence: Evidence from a C.A.R.T. Approach

Köllinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - 2005

We use a sample of 18 countries to study what variables have a significant impact on an indi-vidual?s decision to start a new business and classification and regression trees for an accurate interpretation of the data. Our results support existing literature suggesting the existence of strong...

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Not for Lack of Trying: American Entrepreneurship in Black and White

Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria - 2006

Using a sample obtained from a survey conducted in the United States during summer 2002, we study the variables related to observed differences in the rate of entrepreneurial involvement between black and white Americans. We find strong evidence that differences in subjective and often biased...

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Unemployment Benefits Crowd Out Nascent Entrepreneurial Activity

Koellinger, Philipp - 2013

Analyzing a cross-country panel of 16 OECD countries from 2002 to 2005, we find that higher unemployment benefits crowd out nascent entrepreneurial activity. Our results hold regardless of entrepreneurial motivation (necessity or opportunity) and entrepreneurial type (imitative or innovative)

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Frontiers of entrepreneurship research 2019 : proceedings of the thirty-ninth annual Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference

Zacharakis, Andrew (ed.); Alemany, Luisa (ed.); … - Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference …; … - 2019

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