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An exploratory analysis of the effects of the formalisation policy for individual micro-entrepreneurs

Corseuil, Carlos Henrique L.; Neri, Marcelo; Ulyssea, … - 2014

promoting: i) micro-entrepreneurship in Brazil; and ii) the formalisation of entrepreneurs. Regarding the promotion of micro-entrepreneurship …

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The gendering of entrepreneurship context

Welter, Friederike; Brush, Candida; De Bruin, Anne - 2014

context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …

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Born to be an entrepreneur? How cultural origin affects entrepreneurship

Erhardt, Katharina; Haenni, Simon - 2018

performance are more likely driven by differences in risk aversion or preferences for entrepreneurship rather than by skill. …

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COVID-19 and SMEs: A 2021 "time bomb"?

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021

This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 time bomb for SMEs. Rather, business...

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The local origins of business formation

Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Dunne, Timothy; Haltiwanger, John C. - 2023

What locations generate more business ideas, and where are ideas more likely to turn into businesses? Using comprehensive administrative data on business applications, we analyze the spatial disparity in the creation of business ideas and the formation of new employer startups from these ideas....

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Regional entrepreneurship: Pain or gain for economic growth?

Dienes, Christian; Schneck, Stefan; Wolter, Hans-Jürgen - 2024

entrepreneurship, which might be responsible for different effects of start-up activity on regional development. Therefore, we examine … the growth implications rural entrepreneurship might have on the local economy. Our results suggest that new business … counties. The results also unveil that the often-cited inverse U-shaped relationship between entrepreneurship and GDP growth is …

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The economic contribution of start-up firms in Germany

Schneck, Stefan; May-Strobl, Eva - 2014

This paper utilizes German tax data to present evidence about the direct and indirect effects of new firm formation. Cohort analysis is applied to investigate survival, sales, inputs, and value added of start-up firms. Most drop-outs occur in the early years. We show that start-up...

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Times are a changin'? The emergence of new firms and rank persistence

Schneck, Stefan - 2018

Young firms are known to grow at a faster rate than incumbents. With administrative firm data from Germany, we show that the higher growth rates indeed translate into upward mobility within the firm size distribution. Young firms are therefore not only able to catch up, but also to grow larger...

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A PDE system for modeling stochastic storage in physical and nancialsystems

Howell, Sydney; Duck, Peter W.; Pinto, Helena; Strbac, Goran - Manchester Business School - 2006

For simple problems (only) in stochastic storage, analytic solutions are available,and although simulation is available for more difficult problems, in many casesthis is impractically slow. A new system of partial dierential equations (PDEs),derived via techniques used to value options in nance,...

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From Sickness to Death: The Financial Viability of the English Friendly Societies And Coming of the Old Age Pensions Act, 1875-1908

Broten, Nicholas - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

Traditional theories of the origins of the welfare state have emphasized the financial weakness of Britain’s largest provider of mutual insurance in the late 19th century, the friendly societies. These theories share common implications with contemporary theories of institutional change...

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