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 sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance …

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues … entrepreneurs and their perceptions. Using individual-level data from 43 countries from the period 2002 to 2005, we find that … of entrepreneurial activity in specific circumstances. There is hence scope for entrepreneurs, and policies supporting …

entrepreneurs. However, implied elastiticities with respect to the level and complexity of corporate taxes are an order of magnitude …

implications for economic growth. We start with a Schumpeterian endogenous growth model where entrepreneurs earn monopoly profits … by inventing better goods and financiers arise to screen entrepreneurs. A novel feature of the model is that financiers … processes for screening entrepreneurs. Every existing screening process, however, becomes less effective as technology advances …

taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market … entrepreneurial entry and pro-entrepreneurial policies make foreign entrepreneurs less aggressive. Using the World Bank Doing Business … database, we find evidence that international openness reduces barriers to entry for new entrepreneurs and that the effect is …

-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …

Since the early 1980s, the role and general perception of entrepreneurship and start-up activities has changed … public goods characteristic but it is also uncertain. With that perspective, the role of entrepreneurship is to take on the … over to the start-up firm and therefore entrepreneurship can be expected to have a positive impact on economic performance …