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The cultural roots of firm entry, exit, and growth

Erhardt, Katharina; Haenni, Simon - 2021

Can culture explain persistent differences in economic activity among individuals and across regions? A novel measure of cultural origin enables us to contrast the entrepreneurial activity of individuals located in the same municipality but whose ancestors lived just on opposite sides of the...

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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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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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The gender gap in entrepreneurship : not just a matter of personality

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2014

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

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Why entrepreneurs choose risky R&D projects : but still not risky enough

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Hjertstrand, Per; … - 2016

business stealing effect. Commercialization support induces entrepreneurship but may lead to mediocre entrepreneurship by … inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the … type of entrepreneurship. We develop a regression framework to test empirical predictions of the model. Within our …

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Initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial venture performance : an empirical analysis

Praag, Mirjam van - 2003

A novel method is applied to evaluate the effect of capital constraints on entrepreneurial performance on a panel of 1,000 Dutch entrepreneurs. We find that initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurs in their performance, even when we control for various human capital and other factors...

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Homeownership and entrepreneurship : the role of mortgage debt and commitment

Bracke, Philippe; Hilber, Christian; Silva, Olmo - 2014

We study the link between homeownership, mortgage debt, and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and … homeowners start a business; and (ii) the negative relation between mortgage debt and entrepreneurship is more pronounced when … income volatility is higher. Our model further predicts that the relation between housing wealth and entrepreneurship is …

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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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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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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...

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