Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for … entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood. We model equity crowdfunding in terms of the relationship …

network even among its members. Because all projects have positive net value, it is efficient to finance them even in the …

network even among its members. Because all projects have positive net value, it is efficient to finance them even in the …

. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sub … growing the fastest. The impact of access to finance is stronger for firms in manufacturing than in services, pointing to … sectoral targeting of finance as a possible policy supporting industrialization. …

Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance … systematically by firm types. Micro and small firms have less access to formal finance, pay more in bribes than do larger firms, and … downward the size distribution of firms. In the case of finance and business regulations this occurs by reducing the employment …

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …

-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …