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Reputation Capital, Financial Capital, and Transition to Entrepreneurship
Loss, Frédéric; Renucci, Antoine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
We provide a theory for career choices of employees willing to become entrepreneurs and facing credit constraints. We show that they need a sufficient mix of reputation and financial capital. We consider their choice to work for transparent or opaque firms. Transparent firms disclose more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706599
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Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Employed Status in the Informal Sector: A Constrained Choice or Better Income Prospects? Evidence from seven West-African Countries
Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
This paper aims at highlighting the debate on firm heterogeneity in the informal sector by testing whether entrepreneurial familial background impacts informal businesses outcomes in the West African context. In the USA, a literature aiming at understanding the high intergenerational correlation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708619
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A Geo-entrepreneurial perspective
Simion, Paul - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905342
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Contracting for innovation under knightian uncertainty
AMARANTE, Massimiliano; GHOSSOUB, Mario; PHELPS, Edmund - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2012
states. An innovation is a set of states that are not publicly known along with an asset (in a broad sense) that pays … contingent on those states. The creator of an innovation is an entrepreneur. He is represented by a probability measure on the … set of new states. All other agents perceive the innovation as ambiguous: each of them is represented by a set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933661
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Contracting for Innovation under Knightian Uncertainty
Amarante, Massimiliano; Ghossoub, Mario; Phelps, Edmund - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2012
states. An innovation is a set of states that are not publicly known along with an asset (in a broad sense) that pays … contingent on those states. The creator of an innovation is an entrepreneur. He is represented by a probability measure on the … set of new states. All other agents perceive the innovation as ambiguous: each of them is represented by a set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010616508