consistent with poorly endowed entrepreneurs who operate in imperfect capital markets and a very risky environment. …

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …

-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the domain of work to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in … significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show that the use of … interpret the self-evaluation scale in different ways) between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs, and corrects for variation …

Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the …, while, at the same time, it is clear that stereotypes of what makes the ideal entrepreneur must be revisited. This … for entrepreneurship research. …

one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship – education – and approximately three times larger than …

entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and … prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very …

entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …