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The social and the private returns to education differ when education can increase productivity, and also be used to signal productivity. We show how instrumental variables can be used to separately identify and estimate the social and private returns to education within the employer learning...
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soliciting the current client in the event of termination of employment. The socially optimal level of entrepreneurship will … are too restrictive and produce too little entrepreneurship, and governments can increase welfare by limiting enforcement …
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Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment … dedicated to the geography of entrepreneurship. The paper frames the core questions facing researchers interested in assessing … the local causes and consequences of entrepreneurship, perturbs a core urban model to incorporate entrepreneurship, and …
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entrepreneurship which identifies survival with performance. Instead, many entrepreneurs aim for a cash-out (IPO or acquisition …
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Entrepreneurs face significant non-diversifiable business risks. We build a dynamic incomplete markets model of entrepreneurial finance to demonstrate the important implications of nondiversifiable risks for entrepreneurs' interdependent consumption, portfolio allocation, financing, investment,...
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aversion, higher initial assets, preferences for entrepreneurship over employment, and optimistic beliefs about the payoffs …
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This paper develops a game-theoretic model that predicts when a university invention is commercialized in a start-up firm rather than an established firm. The model predicts that university inventions are more likely to occur in start-ups when the technology transfer officers (TTOs) search cost...
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Entrepreneurial activity is presumed to generate important spillovers, potentially justifying tax subsidies. How does the tax law affect individual incentives? How much of an impact has it had in practice? We first show theoretically that taxes can affect the incentives to be an entrepreneur due...
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entrepreneurship, and use it for comparative statics and welfare analysis. One welfare conclusion is that intermediaries may have …
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an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …
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