We study risk behavior of Danish self-employed entrepreneurs, whose income risk may be driven by both exogenous factors …

intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …

through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …

We model the emergence of organization forms in a game between prospective entrepreneurs. Complementary roles arise … entrepreneurs and their profit-maximizing choices lead to specific technologies in which certain workers are substitutes and others …

Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human … entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of human capital, is related to the performance and motivation of … entrepreneurs operating legal businesses in a transition context. Using regression techniques on a sample of 399 private business …

Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of …

estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point relaxation of capital constraints increases entrepreneurs' gross business incomes … by 3.9% on average. Education enhances entrepreneurs' performance both directly—with a rate of return of 13.7%—and … education on entrepreneurs' performance is estimated to be 3.0–4.6%. …