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This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...
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In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...
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The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …
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This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …
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-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient …
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-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …
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We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …
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This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the … US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the …
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enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship. …
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We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...
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