Netherlands. In order to develop a solid assessment of CSFs for migrant entrepreneurs, and to understand business performance in a … systematically assess the conditions for successful entrepreneurship of migrants. …Nowadays, migrants form a significant share of the urban population, and their business is critical for urban economic …

attention for migrant (or ethnic) entrepreneurship. The present study aims to identify and examine the critical critical success … of migrant entrepreneurs by employing a new analytical instrument, coined Super-Efficient Data Envelopment Analysis … entrepreneurs by introducing a recently developed technique from the cognitive sciences, coined Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs). This …

success of ethnic entrepreneurs. To that end, an explanatory modei'GALAXY' is presented which serves as a framework for … mapping out the impact that various background factors are assumed to have on the economic performance of ethnic entrepreneurs … active in the high-tech sector in four big cities in the Netherlands. The model describes the behavioural and other factors …

diversification within large banks and financial conglomerates. We discuss the limited value of the normal distribution based … of the risk distribution. This measure is estimated and indicates better diversification benefits for conglomerates …

models. We first show analytically how model specification impacts 'diversification benefits' for aggregated market and …

We study the possibility for international diversification of catastrophe risk by the insurance sector. Adopting the … time, thus reducing the scope for international diversification of large losses in this sector. …

the benefits of portfolio diversification for downside risk in case returns are normally distributed with the case of fat …

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 …