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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

more risk-averse individuals are less likely to become entrepreneurs. Empirical tests of this assumption are scarce …

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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? An ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007

This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

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Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs and their Duration in Self-employment: Evidence from German Micro Data

Block, Jörn H.; Sandner, Philipp G. - 2007

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whether necessity entrepreneurs differ from … opportunity entrepreneurs in terms of self-employment duration. Using univariate statistics, we find that opportunity … entrepreneurs remain in self-employment longer than necessity entrepreneurs. However, after controlling for the entrepreneurs …

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Determinanten des Erfolgs staatlich geförderter Existenzgründungen – eine empirische Untersuchung

Sandner, Philipp G.; Block, Jörn H.; Lutz, Andreas - 2007

Ein Großteil der Neugründungen in Deutschland ist auf staatliche Förderung von Existenzgründern zurückzuführen. Dieser Anteil hat sich nach Einführung des als „Ich-AG“ bekannten Existenzgründungszuschusses Anfang 2003 stark erhöht. Die Erfolgsfaktorenforschung hat diese Form von...

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The Effects of Entrepreneurship Education

Weber, Richard; von Graevenitz, Georg; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2009

Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises intentions to be entrepreneurial generally or whether it...

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Inside the Family Firm

Bennedsen, Morten; Nielsen, Kasper; Pérez-González, … - 2005

This paper uses a unique dataset from Denmark to investigate (1) the role of family characteristics in corporate decision making, and (2) the consequences of these decisions on firm performance. We focus on the decision to appoint either a family or an external chief executive officer (CEO). We...

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Social capital, transition in agriculture, and economic organisation: a theoretical perspective

Valentinov, Vladislav - 2003

Social capital is defined as the shared knowledge, trust, and culture, embodied in the structural forms of networks and other stable inter-agent relationships. Social capital has been shown to be more difficult to build than economic capital, and to have greater beneficial effects for community...

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Certification and Market Transparency

Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2017

In markets with quality unobservable to buyers, third-party certification is often the only instrument to increase transparency. While both sellers and buyers have a demand for certification, its role differs fundamentally: sellers use it for signaling, buyers use it for inspection. Seller...

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The Capital Gains Tax: A Curse but Also a Blessing for Venture Capital Investment

Bock, Carolin; Watzinger, Martin - 2017

Our study analyzes the effect of the capital gains tax on the individual investment decisions of venture capitalists. By doing so, we are able to study the decisions for a sample of 76,852 funding rounds in 32 countries from 2000 to 2012. Our results support the predictions of the theoretical...

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Measuring the Spillovers of Venture Capital

Schnitzer, Monika; Watzinger, Martin - 2017

We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of established companies. Spillover effects are larger...

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