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Who should be running ahead? : the roles of two types of entrepreneurship in China's contemporary economy

Zhang, Ying; Stel, Adriaan J. van - 2016

emergence of entrepreneurship in two different forms of private enterprise, viz. getihu and siyingqiye. Using a unique database … between getihu and siyingqiye at the regional level. Our analysis suggests that both types of entrepreneurship play important …

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House money and entrepreneurship

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - 2015

During 1992-2007, house price growth is strongly correlated with local entrepreneurship. We show with Census Bureau … data that most of this entry is related to construction and real estate; these entrants tend to be small and short …-lived. Using a 1998 Texas reform that allowed home equity lending for the rst time in the state, we isolate that entrepreneurship …

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Immigration policy levers for U.S. : innovation and startups

Kerr, William R.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2020

Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not …

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Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2014

heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …

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Entrepreneurship as experimentation

Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana; Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew - 2014

Entrepreneurship research is on the rise but many questions about its fundamental nature still exist. We argue that … entrepreneurship is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed and unknowable until an investment is …

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Self-employment dynamics and the returns to entrepreneurship

Dillon, Eleanor Wiske; Stanton, Christopher T. - 2018

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Pay now or pay later? : the economics within the private equity partnership

Ivashina, Victoria; Lerner, Joshua - 2016 - This draft: March 28, 2016

The economics of partnerships have been of enduring interest to economists, yet it is not clear what profit sharing within a private partnership should look like. We examine over seven hundred private equity partnerships, and show that the allocation of fund economics to individual partners...

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Are "better" ideas more likely to succeed? : an empirical analysis of startup evaluation

Scott, Erin L.; Shu, Pian; Lubynsky, Roman M. - 2015

This paper empirically examines the evaluations of 537 ventures in high-growth industries performed by 251 experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and executives. These experts evaluated ventures by reading succinct summaries of the ventures, without meeting the founding teams, and their...

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Financing innovation

Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - 2014

We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This research strand has been very active over the past five years, generating important new findings, questioning some long-held beliefs, and creating its own puzzles. Our review...

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Labor regulations and European private equity

Bozkaya, Ant; Kerr, William R. - 2009 - Rev.

European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms....

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