unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of …

microeconomic theory and evidence showing that entrepreneurs with superior levels of human capital run larger firms. …

This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large ‘lab-in-the-field’ experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …

positive for would-be entrepreneurs, in contrast to correlations in the data or uninstrumented estimates. Using firm data, we … also investigate how the newly insurance-induced entrepreneurs fare relative to their uninsured peers. Results suggest that …

We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the …

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 …