Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in bothpositively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variablesof social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurswho are permanently...

Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the ownerand the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sourcesof data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More informationincluding estimates of recent...