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Innovative start-up patenting: a new approach towards identification and determinants

Wolf, Tina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms' propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...

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Social Comparison and Risk Taking Behavior

Gamba, Astrid; Manzoni, Elena; Stanca, Luca - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper studies the effects of social comparison on risk taking be- havior. In our framework, decision makers evaluate the consequences of their choices as changes with respect to both their own and their peers' conditions. We test experimentally whether different positions in the social...

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The Role of Emotions on Risk Preferences: An Experimental Analysis

Conte, Anna; Levati, M. Vittoria; Nardi, Chiara - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In the last decades, there has been a large volume of research showing that emotions do have relevant effects on decision-making. We contribute to this literature by experimentally investigating the impact of four specific emotional states - joviality, sadness, fear, and anger - on risk...

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Social comparison and risk taking behavior

Gamba, Astrid; Manzoni, Elena - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper studies the effect of social comparison on risk taking behavior. We assume that decision makers evaluate consequences of their choices not only as variations with respect to their economic status but also as variations with respect to the status of their peers. We test experimentally...

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The "Bomb" Risk Elicitation Task

Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper presents the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task (BRET), an intuitive procedure aimed at measuring risk attitudes. Subjects decide how many boxes to collect out of 100, one of which containing a bomb. Earnings increase linearly with the number of boxes accumulated but are zero if the bomb is...

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Foundations of High Impact Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This survey reviews the theoretical literature on high impact entrepreneurship. The survey is guided in part by the … recent classification changes at the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) regarding entrepreneurship. The board voted to … create a new classification code, L26, for entrepreneurship. The JEL intends to use this code for all articles and books that …

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The Effect of New Business Formation on Employment - The Dominance of Density

Schroeter, Alexandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Empirical analyses show that the employment effects of start-ups are highest in agglomerations, whereas moderately congested areas exhibit only modest effects, and weak or even no significant effects could be found in rural regions. This paper will set out to show that these discrepancies arise...

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Investigating the Anatomy of the Employment Effects of New Business Formation

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Recent empirical research has found that the effect of new business formation on employment emerges over a period of about ten years and has identified a 'wave' pattern of these effects. In this study, we decompose the overall contribution of new business formation on employment change into...

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Entrepreneurs' Acceptance of Formal Institutions: A Cross-country Analysis

Freytag, Andreas; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Institutional settings and the resulting incentive structures are crucial for economic development. The type of entrepreneurial activity and the entrepreneurial effort are especially dependent on underlying incentive structures. We argue that institutions with better incentive structures for...

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The Shadows of the Past - How Implicit Institutions Influence Entrepreneurship

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of implicit institutions on the decision to become an entrepreneur. Implicit institutions are here defined as mindsets that have developed as the result of norms and traditions and we expect they will have an influence on risk attitudes and opportunity...

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