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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we...
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The economic impact of social ties : evidence from German reunification
Burchardi, Konrad B.; Hassan, Tarek A. - 2011
to East Germany in 1989 experience a persistent rise in their personal incomes after the fall of the Berlin Wall … within a given West German region invest in East Germany. As a result, West German regions which (for idiosyncratic reasons … capita in the early 1990s. A one standard deviation rise in the share of households with social ties to East Germany in 1989 …
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On the stability of preferences : repercussions of entrepreneurship on risk attitudes
Brachert, Mattias; Hyll, Walter - 2014
The majority of empirical studies make use of the assumption of stable preferences in searching for a relationship between risk attitude and the decision to become and stay an entrepreneur. Yet empirical evidence on this relationship is limited. In this paper, we show that entry into...
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Entry into entrepreneurship, endogenous adaption of risk attitudes and entrepreneurial survival
Brachert, Matthias; Hyll, Walter; Titze, Mirko - 2014
Empirical studies use the assumption of stability in individual risk attitudes when searching for a relationship between attitude to risk and the decision to become and survive as an entrepreneur. We show that risk attitudes do not remain stable but face endogenous adaption when starting a new...
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Inkubator - Geschäftsmodell auch für Investmentbanken?
Birkelbach, Jörg - In: Die Bank (2001) 5, pp. 356-361
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Business Angels und ihre Netzwerke
Boehm-Bezing, Carl L. von - In: Die Bank (1999) 9, pp. 598-601
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Women's Entrepreneurship in Europe : Multidimensional Research and Case Study Insights
Birkner, Stephanie (ed.); Ettl, Kerstin (ed.);  … - 2018
Migrant Entrepreneurship in Germany - Determinants and Recent Developments -- 3. Business Transferability Chances: Does the … Entrepreneur who Struggled in the Mechanical Engineering Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Germany -- 10. The Female Hunting Instinct …: Entrepreneurial Life in Germany …
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Financing High-Tech Startups : Using Productive Signaling to Efficiently Overcome the Liability of Complexity
Tech, Robin P. G. - 2018
with investors and entrepreneurs in the US and Germany and an international expert panel. Lastly, it presents a framework …
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The impact of risk attitudes on entrepreneurial survival
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2008
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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Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship : two components of business creation
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 2017
A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship. Although there is general agreement in the...
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