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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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Start-Up Nation? Slave Wealth and Entrepreneurship in Civil War Maryland

González, Felipe - 2016

Slave property rights yielded a source of collateral as well as a coerced labor force. Using data from Dun and Bradstreet linked to the 1860 census and slave schedules in Maryland, we find that slaveowners were more likely to start businesses prior to the uncompensated 1864 emancipation, even...

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Does emigration drain entrepreneurs?

Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...

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International Aspects of the Great Depression and the Crisis of 2007 : Similarities, Differences, and Lessons

Grossman, Richard S. - 2011

-slump macroeconomic cycles. During both crises, world trade collapsed faster than world incomes and the trade decline was highly …

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This Time is Different : A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crises

Reinhart, Carmen M. - 2008

This paper offers a quot;panoramicquot; analysis of the history of financial crises dating from England's fourteenth-century default to the current United States sub-prime financial crisis. Our study is based on a new dataset that spans all regions. It incorporates a number of important credit...

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Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions : The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence

Desmet, Klaus - 2018

A market-size-only theory of industrialization cannot explain why England developed nearly two centuries before China. One shortcoming of such a theory is its exclusive focus on producers. We show that once we incorporate the incentives of factor suppliers' organizations such as craft guilds,...

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Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship? : the impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor) - 2007

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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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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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Dynastic entrepreneurship, entry, and non-compete enforcement

Rauch, James E. - 2015

We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs …

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