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Investor tax breaks and financing for start-ups : evidence from China
Güçeri, İrem; Hou, Xipei; Xing, Jing - 2024
deduction for qualified angel and VC investment in China as a quasi-natural experiment. We find that the tax incentive increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564279
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Plunging into the sea : ideological change, institutional environments and private entrepreneurship in China
Yang, Jin; Huang, Jian; Deng, Yanhua; Bordignon, Massimo - 2018
This paper examines the integration of Chinese Communist Party membership and private entrepreneurship in China after … entrepreneurs. Using six waves of a nationwide survey of privately owned enterprises in China from 1997 to 2008, we find that the …
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Tax policy and entrepreneurship in the presence of asymmetric information in capital markets
Fuest, Clemens; Huber, Bernd; Tillessen, Philipp - 2003
This paper considers the implications of asymmetric information in capital markets for entrepreneurial entry and tax policy. In many countries, governments subsidize the creation of new firms. One possible justification for these subsidies is that capital markets for the financing of new firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506206
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Public economics and startup entrepreneurs
Boadway, Robin W.; Tremblay, Jean-François - 2003
This paper surveys the various forms of market failure that can arise when innovating entrepreneurs consider entering an industry, and outlines possible implications for public policy. Externalities can arise from entrepreneurial activities such as spillover benefits from new innovations and...
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Public policy for start-up entrepreneurship with venture capital and bank finance
Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo - 2003
the rest must resort to standard bank finance. We consider a number of policies to promote entrepreneurship and venture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514147
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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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