business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started …

populations. First, more that demonstrating the importance of cultural diversity for entrepreneurship, we show that the type of …

between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra-industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …

We study how a mortgage reform that exogenously increased access to credit had an impact on entrepreneurship, using … point increase in entrepreneurship, equivalent to a 4% increase in the number of entrepreneurs. New entrants were more … benefit from the reform. Our results provide evidence that credit constraints do affect entrepreneurship, but that the overall …

entrepreneurship, depending on entrepreneurial ability. The effect of market size on the equilibrium share of entrepreneurs crucially … entrepreneurship, can increase or decrease with market size. The properties of the underlying ability distribution largely determine …

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …

entrepreneurship so that only women with well above average entrepreneurial skills find it attractive to self-select into … entrepreneurship. This finding can rationalize three facts: a) fewer women than men are entrepreneurs; b) the proportion of women among … entrepreneurs tends to be higher in countries with higher women emancipation; c) women who break the barrier into entrepreneurship …