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Why entrepreneurs choose risky R&D projects : but still not risky enough

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2012

Entrepreneurs face higher commercialization costs than incumbents. We show that this implies that entrepreneurs will …, entrepreneurs may select too safe projects from a social point of view, since they do not internalize the business stealing effect … inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the …

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Intrapreneurship and trust

Elert, Niklas; Stam, Erik; Stenkula, Mikael - 2019

-employment, causing entrepreneurial individuals to elect to be intrapreneurs rather than independent entrepreneurs. Using a novel dataset …

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Does country level social trust predict the size of the sharing economy?

Bergh, Andreas; Funcke, Alexander - 2016

The sharing economy (peer-to-peer based sharing or renting activities coordinated through community-based online services) is typically assumed to be closely related to social trust. The two sharing economy companies Airbnb and Flipkey exist in over 100 countries, allowing us to construct a...

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Social capital and health : evidence that ancestral trust promotes health among children of immigrants

Ljunge, Martin - 2014

This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European countries with ancestry from across the world are studied. Individuals are examined within country of residence using variation in trust across countries of ancestry. The...

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Social capital and political institutions : evidence that democracy fosters trust

Ljunge, Martin - 2013

This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with ancestries from 115 countries are studied within 30 European countries. Comparing individuals born and residing in the same country, those whose father was born in a more...

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Employee compensation in entrepreneurial companies

Bengtsson, Ola; Hand, John R. - 2012 - This draft: July, 2012

Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in entrepreneurial firms are compensated and incentivized. We address this gap in the literature by studying 18,935 non-CEO compensation contracts across 1,809 privately-held venture-backed...

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Trust and growth : a shaky relationship

Berggren, Niclas (contributor); Elinder, Mikael (contributor) - 2007

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Inequality and trust in Sweden : some inequalities are more harmful than others

Gustavsson, Magnus (contributor); … - 2006

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Inequality and trust

Jordahl, Henrik (contributor) - 2007

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The moldable young : how institutions impact social trust

Bergh, Andreas; Öhrvall, Richard - 2016

Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions is debated. Using new data from a representative sample of 2,668 Swedish expatriates (surveyed in the SOM Institute's Swedish Expatriate Survey 2014), we use variation in time...

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