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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014
Guzman, Jorge - 2016
entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456579
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The 2021 Paycheck Protection Program Reboot : Loan Disbursement to Employer and Nonemployer Businesses in Minority Communities
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Was the $278 billion reboot of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in early 2021 disbursed equitably to minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the third and final round of the program, which was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938701
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Do Startups Benefit from Their Investors' Reputation? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Bernstein, Shai; Mehta, Kunal; Townsend, Richard R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze a field experiment conducted on AngelList Talent, a large online search platform for startup jobs. In the experiment, AngelList randomly informed job seekers of whether a startup was funded by a top-tier investor and/or was funded recently. We find that the same startup receives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172146
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Who Creates New Firms When Local Opportunities Arise?
Bernstein, Shai - 2018
New firm formation is a critical driver of job creation, and an important contributor to the responsiveness of the economy to aggregate shocks. In this paper we examine the characteristics of the individuals who become entrepreneurs when local opportunities arise due to an increase in local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480763
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How is COVID Changing the Geography of Entrepreneurship? Evidence from the Startup Cartography Project
Fazio, Catherine E.; Guzman, Jorge; Liu, Yupeng; Stern, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
changing nature and geography of entrepreneurship in the wake of the COVID pandemic. Consistent with other data sources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533336
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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally Validated Survey
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2006
The in°uence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that being an entrepreneur means making risky decisions in uncertain environments; hence more risk-averse individuals are less likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297253
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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs:New Evidence from anExperimentally-Validated Survey
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2006
The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussedtopic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of anentrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence thatmore risk-averse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869676
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Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2000
The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471152
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Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe
Bai, Jessica; Bernstein, Shai; Dev, Abhishek; Lerner, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper examines how government funding programs geared towards early-stage companies interact with private capital markets. Using hand-collected data on 755 government programs worldwide, we find that governments' allocations to such funding programs have been comparable to global venture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510623
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Defining Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship : Two Components of Business Creation
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2019
components to entrepreneurship - "opportunity" and "necessity" - the latter of which is mostly counter-cyclical. Although there … is some agreement on the conceptual distinction between these two factors driving entrepreneurship, there is little … opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship based on the entrepreneur's prior work status (i.e. based on previous unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480322