that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …

Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …

Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more … preference for a taller husband, can partly explain these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries. Blacks are taller than Asians, and …