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Financing and advising early stage startups : the effect of angel investor subsidies

Berger, Marius; Gottschalk, Sandra - 2021

In recent years governments around the world have introduced policies to stimulate investments in early stage entrepreneurial companies, in particular investments by Angel investors. In this paper we study whether introducing subsidies to Angel investors has effects on startups’ access to...

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Public subsidies and the sources of venture capital

Berger, Marius; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2020

Research suggests that public subsidies for newly founded firms have a positive effect on follow-on financing, in particular, Venture Capital (VC). This study differentiates between Government VC, Independent VC, Corporate VC, and Business Angels and shows that public subsidies are not relevant...

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Equity crowdfunding and early stage entrepreneurial finance : damaging or disruptive?

Estrin, Saul; Gozman, Daniel; Khavul, Susanna - 2017

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Firm acquisitions by family firms : a mixed gamble approach

Hussinger, Katrin; Issah, Abdul-Basit - 2019

This study elucidates the mixed gamble confronting family firms when considering a related firm acquisition. The socioemotional and financial wealth trade-off associated with related firm acquisitions as well as their long-term horizon turns family firms more likely to undertake a related...

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Group lending or individual lending? : evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph de; … - 2014

Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...

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Founder personality and start-up subsidies

Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2023

Start-up subsidies play an important role in supporting start-up innovation and performance. However, what characteristics help and hinder start-ups to seek start-up subsidies remains unclear. We study whether and how founder personality, as captured by the big five personality traits and...

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Constructing socio-demographic indicators for National Statistical Institutes using mobile phone data : estimating literacy rates in Senegal

Schmid, Timo; Bruckschen, Fabian; Salvati, Nicola; … - 2016

Modern systems of official statistics require the accurate and timely estimation of socio-demographic indicators for … Institutes based on small area estimation that allows for the estimation of socio-demographic indicators by using mobile phone …-demographic indicator, the proposed approach is applicable to indicators from national statistics in general. …

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Predicting innovative firms using web mining and deep learning

Kinne, Jan; Lenz, David - 2019

(science, technology and innovation) policies requires accurate indicators of innovation. Traditional indicators often lack …. In this paper, we propose a novel approach on how to create firm-level innovation indicators at the scale of millions of … firms. We use traditional firm-level innovation indicators from the questionnaire-based Community Innovation Survey (CIS …

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Tax law and the transfer of start-up losses : a European overview and categorization

Bührle, Anna Theresa; Spengel, Christoph - 2019 - This version: September 11th, 2019

Most of the European Member States employ anti-loss trafficking rules. They aim to prevent the acquisition of mere corporate shells with high tax loss carryforwards for the tax asset to be utilized in profitable companies. However, other corporations can unintentionally be affected by the...

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Business start-ups by the unemployed : an econometric analysis based on firm data

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 1998

This study investigates firm survival and employment growth of start-ups by unemployed people in East and West Germany as promoted by the Work Support Act (so called bridging allowances). In 1994, the services provided were improved considerably, which led to a sharp increase in the number of...

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