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Catching up or Lagging Behind? The Long-Term Business and Innovation Potential of Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2019
survival rates and little contribution to job creation, economic growth, and innovation. In this paper, we use a rich data set … and job creation, but especially also in innovation activities. The gaps in these business outcomes are relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141325
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Better means more: property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 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 environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271286
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The Influence of Start-up Motivation on Entrepreneurial Performance
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Stier, Claudia - 2022
job creation, expansion and innovation activities for up to 40 months after business formation. Using self … better, the higher they score on this index. Effects are particularly strong for growth oriented outcomes like innovation and … ambition, and necessity. We show that individuals driven by opportunity motives perform better in terms of innovation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296537
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Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding
Naroditskiy, Victor; Stein, Sebastian; Tonin, Mirco; … - 2014
Word-of-mouth, referral, or viral marketing is a highly sought-after way of advertising. We undertake a field experiment that compares incentive mechanisms for encouraging social media shares to support a given cause. Our experiment takes place on a website set up to promote a fundraising drive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333277
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Crowdfunding, Cascades and Informed Investors
Parker, Simon C. - 2014
are ultimately financed via crowdfunding? A simple model and simulation reveals the answers to both questions to be: 'not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333336
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Badge of Honor or Scarlet Letter? Unpacking Investors' Judgment of Entrepreneurs' Past Failure
Zunino, Diego; van Praag, Mirjam C.; Dushnitsky, Gary - 2017
crowdfunding. Respondents evaluate a realistic investment opportunity in a between-subjects design, where we decompose the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744729
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Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding
Naroditskiy, Victor; Stein, Sebastian; Tonin, Mirco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Word-of-mouth, referral, or viral marketing is a highly sought-after way of advertising. We undertake a field experiment that compares incentive mechanisms for encouraging social media shares to support a given cause. Our experiment takes place on a website set up to promote a fundraising drive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959716
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Crowdfunding, Cascades and Informed Investors
Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
are ultimately financed via crowdfunding? A simple model and simulation reveals the answers to both questions to be: 'not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747357
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Constrained firms, not subsistence activities: Evidence on capital returns and accumulation in Peruvian microenterprises
Göbel, Kristin; Grimm, Michael; Lay, Jann - 2012
We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, but rapidly decreasing at higher levels. The dynamic analyses of capital accumulation in MEs...
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Internal finance and growth: microeconometric evidence on Chinese firms
Guariglia, Alessandra; Liu, Xiaoxuan; Song, Lina - 2008
Does the availability of internal finance constrain firm growth? Or does it foster it? To answer these questions, we use a panel of 407,096 Chinese firms over the period 2000-2005. We estimate dynamic assets growth equations augmented with cash flow, and find that the growth of state owned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269180