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Do employee spinoffs learn markets from their parents? : evidence from international trade
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Rauch, James E. - 2018
It is well established that employee spinoffs learn their parents' technologies, but little is known about their demand-side learning. We exploit the identification in international trade data of parent markets (countries) to investigate whether exporting employee spinoffs of exporting parents...
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Entrepreneurship, organization capital and the evolution of the firm
Oshima, Atsushi (contributor); Ravikumar, B. (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003647270
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Immigrant entrepreneurship
Pekkala Kerr, 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/10011565661
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Uncertain productivity growth and the choice between FDI and export
Yalcin, Erdal - 2009
The underlying model analyzes the first time foreign market entry decision of a representative investor who can choose between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology and sheds light on the effects of productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883086
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506218
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011549385
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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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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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