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Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul - 2009
both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153505
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Better Means More : Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155593
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Entrepreneurial Entry : Which Institutions Matter?
Aidis, Ruta - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763926
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Entrepreneurship Over the Business Cycle in the United States : A Decomposition
Fossen, Frank M. - 2019
entry strongly applies to unincorporated entrepreneurship, but only weakly to incorporated entrepreneurship. This highlights … the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864874
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The Continued Search for the Solow Residual : The Role of National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Acs, Zoltan J. - 2014
This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042995
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Opportunity Versus Necessity Entrepreneurship : Two Components of Business Creation
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2018
A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter …-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship, there are many challenges to creating a definition that is both objective and empirically feasible. We propose an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929104
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129940
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Risk Preference and Entrepreneurial Investment at the Top of the Wealth Distribution
Fossen, Frank M.; Koenig, Johannes; Schroeder, Carsten - 2021
We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using novel survey data from the top of the wealth distribution, which have been added to the 2019 German Socio-economic Panel Study. The data include private wealth balance sheets,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314785
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Were Small Businesses More Likely to Permanently Close in the Pandemic?
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid; … - 2022
Previous estimates indicate that COVID-19 led to a large drop in the number of operating businesses operating early in the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small businesses were disproportionately hit. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013403602
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Size Matters : Entrepreneurial Entry and Government
Aidis, Ruta - 2010
-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141215