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Liang, James - 2014

Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …

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The Geography of Crowdfunding

Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2014

Perhaps the most striking feature of "crowdfunding" is the broad geographic dispersion of investors in small, early-stage projects. This contrasts with existing theories that predict entrepreneurs and investors will be co-located due to distance-sensitive costs. We examine a crowdfunding setting...

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Ethnic Chinese Networks in International Trade

Rauch, James E. - 2011

Ethnic Chinese networks, as proxied by the product of ethnic Chinese population shares, are found in 1980 and 1990 to have increased bilateral trade both within Southeast Asia and for other country pairs. Their effects within Southeast Asia are much greater for differentiated than for...

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Financial Integration, Entrepreneurial Risk and Global Imbalances

Angeletos, George-Marios - 2014

How does financial integration impact capital accumulation, current-account dynamics, and cross-country inequality? We investigate this question within a two-country, general-equilibrium, incomplete-markets model that focuses on the importance of idiosyncratic entrepreneurial risk-- a risk that...

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The Effect of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship

Djankov, Simeon - 2010

We present new data on effective corporate income tax rates in 85 countries in 2004. The data come from a survey, conducted jointly with PricewaterhouseCoopers, of all taxes imposed on quot;the samequot; standardized mid-size domestic firm. In a cross-section of countries, our estimates of the...

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Dinner Table Human Capital and Entrepreneurship

Hvide, Hans K. - 2018

We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or …

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International Trade, Foreign Investment, and the Formation of the Entrepreneurial Class

Grossman, Gene M. - 2021

In this paper, I examine the argument that free trade may be harmful to less developed countries, because such international competition inhibits the formation of a local entrepreneurial class.I view the entrepreneur as the manager of the industrial enterprise, as well as the agent who bears the...

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Explaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship : The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints

Ardagna, Silvia - 2014

the workforce are important determinants of entrepreneurship, and we also highlight the relevance of social networks, self …

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