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Growth and Entrepreneurship: An Empirial Assessment

Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …

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How do firms choose legal form of organization?

Cole, Rebel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In this study, we analyze the firm’s choice of legal form of organization (“LFO”). We find that only about one in three firms begins operations as a proprietorship, while almost as many begin as limited-liability companies and as corporations. Moreover, this distribution is remarkably...

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Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

capital. In this paper we introduce a new factor, entrepreneurship capital, and link it to output in the context of a … production function model. This paper explains what is meant by entrepreneurship capital and why it should influence economic … output. A production function model including several different measures of entrepreneurship capital is then estimated for …

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Culture Values Entrepreneurship and Growth

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

context of entrepreneurship and by Fershtman and Weiss (1991). …

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Who needs credit and who gets credit? Evidence from the Surveys of Small Business Finances

Cole, Rebel A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In this study, we use data from the Federal Reserve’s 1993, 1998 and 2003 Surveys of Small Business Finances to classify small businesses into four groups based upon their credit needs and to model the credit allocation process into a sequence of three steps. First, do firms need credit? We...

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Bank credit, trade credit or no credit: Evidence from the Surveys of Small Business Finances

Cole, Rebel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this study, we use data from the SSBFs to provide new information about the use of credit by small businesses in the U.S. More specifically, we first analyze firms that do and do not use credit; and then analyze why some firms use trade credit while others use bank credit. We find that one in...

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Small Business, Innovation, and Tax Policy: A Review

Gale, William; Brown, Samuel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Small businesses occupy an iconic place in American public policy debates. This paper discusses interactions between the federal tax code, small business, and the economy. We summarize the characteristics of small businesses, identify the tax provisions that most affect small businesses, and...

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