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include "star" serial entrepreneurs are much more likely to commercialize their own discoveries via startups, as are more …
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article considers one friction that currently affects a small, but important, set of entrepreneurs: racial and gender … financing of startups. Female founders manage 16-25% of all startups, while Black entrepreneurs rarely exceed 3% of the startup … underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …
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, we find that 6% of Republicans and 4% of Democrats become entrepreneurs. This partisan entrepreneurship gap is time …-varying: Republicans increase their relative entrepreneurship during Republican administrations and decrease it during Democratic … entrepreneurship around the elections of President Obama and President Trump, and the strongest effects among the most politically …
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economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship. Using administrative census data linked to the complete formal …
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Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of … immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers. We provide updated statistics on the share of US entrepreneurs who …
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entrepreneurship. Higher wealth causally increases firm profitability, an indication that it relaxes would-be entrepreneurs' financial …We use data on stock portfolios of Norwegian households to show that stock market wealth increases entrepreneurship by …
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. Do they help local entrepreneurs, for whom networks are important? We examine whether the introduction of Starbucks cafés … into U.S. neighborhoods with no coffee shops increased entrepreneurship. We find that, when compared to census tracts that …
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remote work during the pandemic are more likely to see their employees becoming entrepreneurs. This effect holds both …
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We explore how financial constraints distort the entry decisions among otherwise productive entrepreneurs and limit … growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit …
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Venture capital (VC) backed firms face neither the governance requirements nor a major separation of ownership and control of their public peers. These differences suggest that independent directors could play a unique role on private firm boards. This paper explores the dynamics of VC-backed...
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