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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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heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …
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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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Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not …
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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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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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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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Private firms' ability to communicate confidentially with selected investors implies that valuation disagreements between firms and investors are larger at public firms than at private ones. Consistent with the notion that misvaluation concerns lead public firms to hoard cash to be able to...
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States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data …
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