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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012

and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and … entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

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Emergency aid for self-employed in the COVID-19 pandemic: A flash in the pan?

Block, Jörn Hendrich; Kritikos, Alexander; Priem, … - 2020

-time online-survey data with a total of more than 20,000 observations. We employ propensity score matching, making use of a rich …

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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic: Higher impact among digitalized self-employed

Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022

pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data …

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

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The private equity premium puzzle revisited: new evidence on the role of heterogeneous risk attitudes

Fossen, Frank M. - 2008

puzzle. The analysis is based on a large, representative panel data set for Germany, which provides information on asset …

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Trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity: Do these traits impact entrepreneurial dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander - 2010

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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Risk attitudes and private business equity

Fossen, Frank M. - 2012

Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute …

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Would a flat tax stimulate entrepreneurship in Germany? A behavioural microsimulation analysis allowing for risk

Fossen, Frank M. - 2008

When possible income tax reforms are debated, the suspected impact on entrepreneurship is often used as an argument in … entrepreneurship based on microeconometric research have not been provided by the literature, however. This paper estimates the ex …

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The influence of start-up motivation on entrepreneurial performance

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander; Stier, Claudia - 2022

entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of becoming an entrepreneur influence the subsequent …

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