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Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equity

Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute …

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Entrepreneurship Dynamics: Entry Routes, Business-Owner's Persistence and Exit Modes

Rocha, Vera; Carneiro, Anabela; Varum, Celeste Amorim - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013

This paper conducts a comprehensive study on entrepreneurship dynamics using a large longitudinal matched employer … entrepreneurship. …

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Twenty years of rural entrepreneurship: a bibliometric survey

Pato, Maria Lúcia; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013

Entrepreneurship, in general, and rural entrepreneurship, in particular, has become a dynamic field of research in the … Scopus (until March 2013), we found that within the entrepreneurship literature, ‘rural entrepreneurship’ has been largely … overlooked and has gradually lost momentum. Rural entrepreneurship is an essentially ‘European’ concern, whose most prolific …

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Understanding Incubator Value – A Network Approach to University Incubators

Roseira, Catarina; Ramos, Carla; Maia, Francisco - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2014

Abstract Networking represents a cornerstone for entrepreneurial action, nurturing relationships that provide access to necessary resources. Previous research shows that such relationships can be fostered as part of incubation processes. However, there is a lack of understanding of the...

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Self-Employment - a Way to End Unemployment?: Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period...

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The Impact on Earnings When Entering Self-Employment: Evidence for Germany

Martin, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) earnings differentials between self-employed and wage-employed workers in the German labor market are explored. Previous research based on US data reports lower incomes for entrepreneurs. In contrast to that, the findings of this contribution...

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Foreign Bank Presence and Its Effect on Firm Entry and Exit in Transition Economies

Havrylchyk, Olena - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This study investigates the impact of foreign bank penetration in Central and Eastern Europe on firm entry. We demonstrate that the acquisition of domestic banks by foreign investors has led to reduced firm creation, smaller average size of entrants and increased firm exit in opaque industries...

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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events

Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events - natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts - on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues - such as fear of failure in starting a business venture,...

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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...

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New Business Formation and Regional Development: A Survey and Assessment of the Evidence

Fritsch, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

research and draw some conclusions for entrepreneurship policy. …

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