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Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the decision-making context of the individual. The … opportunity by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. The basic argument is that knowledge created … recognition of opportunities and the decision to commercialize them is the focal concern. While the prevalent view in the …
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experiments and survey-based data. In the experiment subjects are shown a network, in which their location is exogenously assigned … these biases. The experiments yield three further findings: (iii) network cognition is affected by the subject's location …, (iv) the accuracy of network cognition varies with the nature of the network, and (v) limitations in network cognition …
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In the course of ordinary business, commercial banks frequently encounter entrepreneurs seeking loans for the purpose … of financing new or continuing projects. These entrepreneurs are frequently unrealistic, their perception having been … relationship between banks and possible optimistic entrepreneurs. We examine this capital market from the stand-point of economic …
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credit markets. Due to the financial imperfections, high-productivity firms - which are run by entrepreneurs - must be …
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We construct a model where an entrepreneur could either innovate for entry or for sale. It is shown that increased product competition tends to increase the relative profitability of innovation for sale relative to entry. Increased competition reduces entrants' and acquirers' profits in a...
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to the taxation of entrepreneurs in transition economies. …
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Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to …
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We test the hypothesis that "genuine" or "convincing" smiling is a costly signal that has evolved to induce cooperation in situations requiring mutual trust. Potential trustees in a trust game made video clips for viewing by potential trusters before the latter decided whether to send them...
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for …
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cornerstone of contract theory. We have conducted an experiment with 720 participants to explore whether the theoretical insights …
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