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Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …
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Introduction / Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar -- International perspectives on the nature of entrepreneurship … -- Explaining international differences in entrepreneurship: the role of individual characteristics and regulatory constraints … Colombian case / Camilo Mondragón-Vélez and Ximena Peña -- Entrepreneurship and firm formation across countries / Leora Klapper …
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Slave property rights yielded a source of collateral as well as a coerced labor force. Using data from Dun and Bradstreet linked to the 1860 census and slave schedules in Maryland, we find that slaveowners were more likely to start businesses prior to the uncompensated 1864 emancipation, even...
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-slump macroeconomic cycles. During both crises, world trade collapsed faster than world incomes and the trade decline was highly …
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This paper offers a "panoramic" analysis of the history of financial crises dating from England's fourteenth-century default to the current United States sub-prime financial crisis. Our study is based on a new dataset that spans all regions. It incorporates a number of important credit episodes...
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A market-size-only theory of industrialization cannot explain why England developed nearly two centuries before China. One shortcoming of such a theory is its exclusive focus on producers. We show that once we incorporate the incentives of factor suppliers' organizations such as craft guilds,...
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"New data from the 2008 World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey indicates a very strong and statistically significant … fostering formal sector entrepreneurship. "--World Bank web site … relationship between entrepreneurship and a better business environment. Data for 100 countries on the number of total and newly …
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This paper examines how government funding programs geared towards early-stage companies interact with private capital markets. Using hand-collected data on 755 government programs worldwide, we find that governments' allocations to such funding programs have been comparable to global venture...
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