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Investor Tax Breaks and Financing for Start-Ups: Evidence from China
Güçeri, İrem; Hou, Xipei; Xing, Jing - 2024
We examine how investor-level tax incentives affect financing for start-ups using the introduction of a generous tax deduction for qualified angel and VC investment in China as a quasi-natural experiment. We find that the tax incentive increases funding for eligible start-ups, with stronger...
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Risky Business: Venture Capital, Pivoting and Scaling
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2024
The creation and scaling of startups are inherently linked to risk-taking, with various types of owners handling these risks differently. This paper investigates the influence of an active venture capital (VC) market on startups’ decisions regarding research and scaling. It outlines conditions...
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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree: location of start-ups relative to incumbents
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2008
New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...
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Startup Stations: The Impact of Rail Access on Entrepreneurship (Self-Employment) in England Wales
Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Szumilo, Nikodem; Vernet, Antoine - 2024
We study the impact of improved rail access on entrepreneurship rates in England and Wales. We use data from the Census … spanning 2001, 2011, and 2021 to analyse self-employment rates in granular geographic areas of around 200 residents … openings. We find that all else equal, moving 1 km further away from a station reduces self-employment rates by 0.12 percentage …
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Synergizing Ventures
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
Venture capital (VC) and growth are examined both empirically and theoretically. Empirically, VC-backed startups have higher early growth rates and initial patent quality than non-VC-backed ones. VC-backing increases a startup's likelihood of reaching the right tails of the firm size and...
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The Role of Venture Capital and Governments in Clean Energy : Lessons from the First Cleantech Bubble
van den Heuvel, Matthias; Popp, David - 2022
After a boom and bust cycle in the early 2010s, venture capital (VC) investments are, once again, flowing towards green businesses. In this paper, we use Crunchbase data on 150,000 US startups founded between 2000 and 2020 to better understand why VC initially did not prove successful in funding...
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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 …
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Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2022
to leaders' birthplaces grow substantially in sales and employment after leaders assume office. Firms in favored areas …
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Ethnic Favoritism: An Axiom of Politics?
De Luca, Giacomo; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2015
We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group. We construct a panel dataset of 2,022 ethnographic regions from 139 countries with annual observations from 1992 to 2012, and use nighttime...
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