first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using nationally …

We study the importance of information technology (IT) in banking for entrepreneurship. Guided by a parsimonious model …. We present evidence consistent with banks’ IT adoption spurring entrepreneurship through a collateral channel …: entrepreneurship increases by more in IT-exposed counties when house prices rise. Further analysis suggests that IT improves banks …

Many small businesses closed in the pandemic, but were economic losses disproportionately felt by businesses owned by …. Pandemic-induced losses to business earnings in 2020 were 16-19 percent for all business owners. Racial inequality increased in … the pandemic: Black business owners experienced larger negative impacts on business earnings of 12-14 percent relative to …

the rest must resort to standard bank finance. We consider a number of policies to promote entrepreneurship and venture …

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

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 …

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 …