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 … absence of a network. Thus, the formation of the network is inefficient as entrepreneurs incur networking costs for purely …

-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly … that while both male and female entrepreneurs in ECA are sub-optimally small, women's returns to scale are significantly …

one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large … models and employing decomposition techniques, we find that gender differences in socio-demographics alone would even be in … start-ups among women and explains about one third of the entire gender difference. Most substantially, men opt for a start …

Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have more skills and social … connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connections could give experienced founders some advantage in the … experienced founders' access to venture capital. Compared to novice entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs with venture-backed founding …

entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship …

economic development. This paper studies academic entrepreneurs using a comprehensive venture capital database. I find that … about two-thirds of the academic entrepreneurs locate their businesses in the same state as their universities. National … variables in explaining the number of academic entrepreneurs from a university. In contrast, the abundance of venture capital …