participate, and over 50% of them are entrepreneurs. We then exploit an identification strategy by comparing the entrepreneurial …

. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …

Financing constraints are one of the biggest concerns impacting potential entrepreneurs around the world. Given the … important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints … for would-be entrepreneurs is also an important goal for policymakers worldwide. We review two major streams of research …

In the standard venture capital contract, entrepreneurs have a large fraction of equity ownership in the companies they … to those whose companies go public or are acquired on favorable terms, forcing entrepreneurs to bear a substantial burden … attracting venture funding. Entrepreneurs with a coefficient of relative risk aversion of two and with less than $0.7 million …

This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill …. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are more likely to succeed than first time entrepreneurs and … for entrepreneurs without a successful track record. Similarly, more experienced venture capitalists are able to identify …

The paper studies the effects of tax policy on venture capital activity. Entrepreneurs pursue a single high risk … an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …

mechanism, but it does not seem to be the primary one. An alternative is that competitions help entrepreneurs learn about their …