We examine in a large survey (n = 1,928) how contemplative entrepreneurs, managers and employees are in their decision … intuitive as employees. At the same time entrepreneurs have response times and a subjective Need for Cognition that (on average … conventional wisdom, we find that entrepreneurs have a stronger subjective Faith in Intuition than others. Their actual action …

experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more …We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …

. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information about skill. We predict that investors will discount entrepreneurs that … our predictions using an online experiment where respondents are potential investors in seed stage ventures via equity … crowdfunding. Respondents evaluate a realistic investment opportunity in a between-subjects design, where we decompose the effect …

We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the …

Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start … positive for would-be entrepreneurs, in contrast to correlations in the data or uninstrumented estimates. Using firm data, we … also investigate how the newly insurance-induced entrepreneurs fare relative to their uninsured peers. Results suggest that …

ex-post decision to exit, entrepreneurs select ex-ante whether they are willing to pursue an entrepreneurial career at …Entrepreneurs exit their business due to selection mechanisms experienced in the market place. Next to this well known … determinants of these two types of selection: exit in real and in imagined markets. Entrepreneurs in imagined markets are more …

We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i … Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of …