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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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Immobilien-Investments vor dem Umbruch

Zitelmann, Rainer - In: Die Bank (2000) 4, pp. 254-257

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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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Der neue Bauherren-Erlaß

Heymann, Ekkehardt von - In: Die Bank (1990), pp. 577-580

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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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