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Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance
Guzman, Jorge - 2015
A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial … quality distribution. Second, we propose two new economic statistics for the measurement of entrepreneurship: the … Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI) and the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index (RECPI). We use these indices to offer a …
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Serial Entrepreneurship : Learning by Doing?
Lafontaine, Francine - 2014
in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458354
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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014
Guzman, Jorge - 2016
entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …
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Foreign Entry into U.S. Manufacturing by Takeovers and the Creation of New Firms
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2002
Using U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data for individual foreign acquisitions and new establishments in the U.S from 1988 to 1998, and aggregate data for 1980 to 1998, we find that acquisitions and establishments of new firms tend to occur in periods of high U.S. growth and take place mainly...
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Multinational Expansion in Time and Space
Garetto, Stefania - 2019
and space and for predicting the effects of globalization shocks …
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International Trade and Innovation
Akcigit, Ufuk; Melitz, Marc J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model that features many of those mechanisms that connect trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794638
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Scale, Scope, and the International Expansion Strategies of Multiproduct Firms
Yeaple, Stephen Ross - 2013
A growing literature seeks to understand how the characteristics of firms shape the manner in which they serve foreign markets. We consider an environment in which multiproduct firms can sell their products in multiple countries from multiple locations. We show that there are strong empirical...
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Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2000
an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470760
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Not-For-Profit Entrepreneurs
Glaeser, Edward L. - 1998
Entrepreneurs who start new firms may choose not-for-profit status as a means of committing to soft incentives. Such incentives protect donors, volunteers, consumers and employees from ex post expropriation of profits by the entrepreneur. We derive conditions under which completely...
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Entrepreneurial Decisions and Liquidity Constraints
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1993
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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