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The old-boy network and the quality of entrepreneurs
Bac, Mehmet; Inci, Eren - 2010
We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs' types. Network membership is observable, which allows lenders to offer different interest rates to...
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Crowdfunding Dynamics
Belleflamme, Paul - 2019
Various forms of social learning and network effects are at work on crowdfunding platforms, giving rise to informational and payoff externalities. We use novel entrepreneur-backer data to study how these externalities shape funding dynamics, within and across projects. We find that backers...
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Entrepreneurship, economic conditions, and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291884
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Lifting the Iron Curtain: School-age Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015
We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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Employee Spinouts, Social Networks, and Family Firms
Rauch, James E. - 2013
spin out. This is shown to predict the association of co-ethnic networks with high rates of entrepreneurship and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328762
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High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2013
measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …
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Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - 2013
Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328837
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The Emergence of the Global Fintech Market: Economic and Technological Determinants
Haddad, Christian; Hornuf, Lars - 2016
We investigate the economic and technological determinants inducing entrepreneurs to establish ventures with the purpose of reinventing financial technology (fintech). We find that countries witness more fintech startup formations when the latest technology is readily available and people have...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584896
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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model’s underlying mechanisms. …
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