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Can a Bonus Overcome Moral Hazard? An Experiment on Voluntary Payments, Competition, and Reputation in Markets for Expert Services
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2017
Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...
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On institutional reforms and the allocation of entrepreneurship In Russia’s transition
Petrick, Martin - 2010
study on William Baumol's (1990) hypothesis that entrepreneurship can be allocated to productive activities by appropriate … a constant entrepreneurship across time and space there is empirical and historical evidence that entrepreneurial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304737
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Gendered Access to Finance: The Role of Team Formation, Idea Quality, and Implementation Constraints in Business Evaluations
Bartos, Vojtech; Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina; … - 2023
We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467812
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Determinanten des Erfolgs staatlich geförderter Existenzgründungen – eine empirische Untersuchung
Sandner, Philipp G.; Block, Jörn H.; Lutz, Andreas - 2007
die Entrepreneurship-Forschung sowie für die Entrepreneurship-Praxis werden diskutiert. Herausforderungen aus Sicht der … introduction of the “Ich-AG” or “me-plc” in January 2003, this share has increased strongly. Entrepreneurship research so far has … findings from a perspective of entrepreneurship research as well as from a perspective of governmental start-up policy. …
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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 helps students determine how well suited they are for entrepreneurship …
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A Theory of Crowdfunding: A Mechanism Design Approach with Demand Uncertainty and Moral Hazard
Strausz, Roland - 2017
Crowdfunding provides innovation in enabling entrepreneurs to contract with consumers before investment. Under aggregate demand uncertainty, this improves screening for valuable projects. Entrepreneurial moral hazard and private cost information threatens this benefit. Crowdfunding's...
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Organizing for entrepreneurship: Field-experimental evidence on the performance effects of autonomy in choosing project teams and ideas
Boss, Viktoria; Ihl, Christoph; Dahlander, Linus; … - 2019
. These organizational practices emulate independent "green-field" entrepreneurship by relinquishing hierarchical control and …-determined in entrepreneurship. We run a field experiment in an entrepreneurship course carefully designed to disentangle the …
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Complementing Business Training with Access to Finance: Evidence from SMEs in Kenya
Ashraf, Anik; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2023
In this paper, we study the complementarity between business training and access to financial capital for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. All participants in a business training program are offered training. One-third of participants are offered loans immediately after training...
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To Be Financed or Not … - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing
Haeussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
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African Americans Pursuit of Self-Employment
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
differences in entrepreneurship... …
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