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Serial Entrepreneurship : Learning by Doing?
Lafontaine, Francine - 2014
in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050291
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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quality and Quantity of Entrepreneurship for 32 Us States, 1988-2014
Guzman, Jorge - 2016
Assessing the state of American entrepreneurship requires not simply counting the quantity but also the initial quality … cycles as a driver of high-growth entrepreneurship, our results highlight the role of economic and institutional conditions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996381
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Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance
Guzman, Jorge - 2015
A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial … quality distribution. Second, we propose two new economic statistics for the measurement of entrepreneurship: the … Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI) and the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index (RECPI). We use these indices to offer a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028060
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Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance : Evidence from Finnish Microdata
Ariu, Andrea; Hakkala, Katariina Nilsson; Jensen, J. … - 2022
This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, work- force composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309636
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068298
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068649
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Client-Based Entrepreneurship
Rauch, James E. - 2014
soliciting the current client in the event of termination of employment. The socially optimal level of entrepreneurship will … are too restrictive and produce too little entrepreneurship, and governments can increase welfare by limiting enforcement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069964
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Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William - 2014
important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints … examining the relevance of financing constraints for entrepreneurship. We then introduce a framework that provides a unified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070601
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Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship
Dillon, Eleanor Wiske - 2017
with experimentation to learn about earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to entrepreneurship … found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of entrepreneurship. The model is then used to evaluate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963153
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Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2006
an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783952