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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238448
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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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Fintech startups in Germany : firm failure, funding success, and innovation capacity
Hornuf, Lars; Mattusch, Matthias - 2024 - This version: August 18, 2024
innovative these firms actually are. This paper investigates firm failure, funding success, and innovation capacity using a hand … backgrounds file more patents. Early third-party endorsements and foreign partnerships substantially increase firm survival. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051740
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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 … capital backed innovation. …
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346315
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528295