During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of …

managers and thus possibly making China's listed firms less effective in solving the agency problem. As such, ownership …

We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of … on entrepreneurship has been sharper in areas with industrial districts. After examining alternative explanations …

variation in risk aversion the early exposure to a massive earthquake. Using several waves of the Bank of Italy Survey of …

simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which …

Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of … balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates entrepreneurship. Yet, none of these considers individual … entrepreneur. -- entrepreneurship ; occupational choice ; skills …

entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship …. The model predicts that, with liquidity constraints, the probability of entering entrepreneurship is an increasing … wealth profile for the fraction of workers in entrepreneurship, start-up costs weaken this relationship by depressing the …

European context comparing results from Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. Using these large and comparable data sets, our logit … employment. Similar results were found for fathers in Spain and Italy. Perhaps the most striking result is the very strong …