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Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014

Why do levels of entrepreneurship differ across America's cities? This paper presents basic facts on two measures of … entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success … entrepreneurship is linked to a large number of small firms in supplying industries. Finally, there is a strong connection between area …

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The Impact of Foreign Liabilities on Small Firms : Firm-Level Evidence from the Korean Crisis

Kim, Yun Jung - 2012

Using Korean firm-level data on publicly-listed and privately-held firms together with firm exit data, we find strong evidence of the balance-sheet effect for small firms at both the intensive and extensive margins. During the crisis, small firms with more short-term foreign debt are more likely...

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Ethnic Chinese Networks in International Trade

Rauch, James E. - 2011

Ethnic Chinese networks, as proxied by the product of ethnic Chinese population shares, are found in 1980 and 1990 to have increased bilateral trade both within Southeast Asia and for other country pairs. Their effects within Southeast Asia are much greater for differentiated than for...

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Why are There so Few Black Entrepreneurs?

Meyer, Bruce D. - 2010

Black entrepreneurship has been unsuccessful in the U.S. The fraction of employed blacks that work in their own …

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Evolution and the Growth Process : Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Galor, Oded - 2011

This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human...

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Entrepreneurship in International Trade

Rauch, James E. - 2011

entrepreneurship, and use it for comparative statics and welfare analysis. One welfare conclusion is that intermediaries may have …

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Mexican Entrepreneurship : A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014

Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor...

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The First Deal : The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

Hellmann, Thomas F. - 2014

This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity...

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Sex Ratios, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth in the People's Republic of China

Wei, Shang-Jin - 2014

imbalance may also stimulate economic growth by inducing more entrepreneurship and hard work. First, new domestic private firms …

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Financial Integration, Entrepreneurial Risk and Global Imbalances

Angeletos, George-Marios - 2014

How does financial integration impact capital accumulation, current-account dynamics, and cross-country inequality? We investigate this question within a two-country, general-equilibrium, incomplete-markets model that focuses on the importance of idiosyncratic entrepreneurial risk-- a risk that...

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