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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...
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Risk-neutral individuals take more risky decisions when they have limited liability. Risk-neutral managers may not when …
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opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …
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Recent field evidence suggests a positive link between overconfidence and innovative activities. In this paper we argue that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In particular, we show theoretically and experimentally that...
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A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity …
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Such preemptive acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate...
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We study the link between homeownership, mortgage debt, and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and … homeowners start a business; and (ii) the negative relation between mortgage debt and entrepreneurship is more pronounced when … income volatility is higher. Our model further predicts that the relation between housing wealth and entrepreneurship is …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …
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“spinouts”: managers of input divisions can start their own firms, making customized inputs formerly provided internally subject … lead to inefficiently low entry. Vertically integrated firms can fight back by hiring managers for their input divisions … spin out. This is shown to predict the association of co-ethnic networks with high rates of entrepreneurship and the …
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