entrepreneurial ladder and the factors that influence their position on the ladder. We use data from the 2006 "Flash Eurobarometer … survey on Entrepreneurship" consisting of more than 10,000 observations for 25 member states of the European Union, Norway …

Recently collected data show that, within any manufacturing industry, vertically integrated firms tend to have larger … spin out. This is shown to predict the association of co-ethnic networks with high rates of entrepreneurship and the …

. Data of two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer surveys (2003 and 2004) containing over 20,000 observations are used …This paper uses an Eclectic Framework explaining entrepreneurship incorporating different streams of literature and … spanning different disciplines. The Eclectic Framework integrates factors shaping the demand for entrepreneurship on the one …

entrepreneurship. Here, we investigate analytically and quantitatively the trade-off between transaction costs saved and creative …-ability heirs either abandon (Type 1) or continue (Type 2) a family business. A calibration of the model with German data suggests …