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Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Choice and Risk Aversion : A Decomposition Based on a Microeconometric Model

Fossen, Frank M. - 2009

and dependent employment are estimated separately by gender, accounting for non-random selection into the employment …Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? Women have both to a lower entry rate into self-employment and a higher exit rate … in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …

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Precautionary and Entrepreneurial Saving : New Evidence from German Households

Fossen, Frank M.; Rostam‐Afschar, Davud - 2009

The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper...

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The Private Equity Premium Puzzle Revisited : New Evidence on the Role of Heterogeneous Risk Attitudes

Fossen, Frank M. - 2009

The empirical finding that entrepreneurs tend to invest a large share of their wealth in their own firms despite comparably low returns and high risk has become known as the private equity premium puzzle. This paper provides evidence supporting the hypothesis that lower risk aversion of...

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Would a Flat Tax Stimulate Entrepreneurship in Germany? : A Behavioural Microsimulation Analysis Allowing for Risk

Fossen, Frank M. - 2008

-ante effects of the German tax reform 2000 and of two hypothetical flat tax scenarios on entries into and exits out of self-employment … structural microeconometric models of transitions into and out of self-employment. These structural models include an estimated … people from choosing self-employment. This is explained by the reduction of entrepreneurs' income risk through progressive …

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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011

development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits … into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the … parental self-employment …

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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity : Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...

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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2009

Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...

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