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This paper studies the choice of electoral rules, in particular, the question of minority representation. Majorities tend to disenfranchise minorities through strategic manipulation of electoral rules. With the aim of explaining changes in electoral rules adopted by US cities (particularly in...
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of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, are hard to … entrepreneurship rates of students without an entrepreneurial background, but in a more complex way than the literature has previously … suggested: A higher share of entrepreneurial peers leads to lower rather than higher subsequent rates of entrepreneurship …
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The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …
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-documented relationships between economic growth, innovation, entrepreneurship and venture capital. Yet despite good intentions, many of these … launch sustained successful efforts to promote entrepreneurship over sustained periods. I highlight several critical …
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This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill … further support for the role of skill in both entrepreneurship and venture capital …
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How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that there is heterogeneity across industries--incumbents in technologically advanced industries react positively to foreign firm entry, but not in laggard industries. To explain this...
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We explore the impact of the institutional environment on the nature of entrepreneurial activity across Europe. Political, legal, and regulatory variables that have been shown to impact capital market development influence entrepreneurial activity in the emerging markets of Europe, but not in...
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The environment for business creation is central to economic policy, as entrepreneurs are believed to be forces of innovation, employment and economic dynamism. We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) to investigate the relative importance of financial and human capital...
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This paper analyzes the role of liquidity constraints in the formation of new entrepreneurial enterprises. The basic empirical strategy is to determine whether an individual's wealth affects the probability of becoming an entrepreneur, and the conditional amounts of depreciable assets, ceteris...
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This paper analyzes the role of liquidity constraints in the formation of new entrepreneurial enterprises. The basic empirical strategy is to determine whether an individual's wealth affects the probability of becoming an entrepreneur, and the conditional amounts of depreciable assets, ceteris...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474451