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Risk attitudes and private business equity
Fossen, Frank M. - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2012
Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956186
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Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equity
Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010544328
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Stated and Revealed Heterogeneous Risk Preferences in Educational Choice
Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737594
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Stated and revealed heterogeneous risk preferences in educational choice
Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2014
Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956162
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Stated and Revealed Heterogeneous Risk Preferences in Educational Choice
Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743492
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Stated and Revealed Heterogeneous Risk Preferences in Educational Choice
Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744676
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What's New About the New Economy? Sources of growth in the managed and entrepreneurial economies
Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2000
in the era of entrepreneurship, scholars have been slow to respond. This paper attempts to make a first step identifying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005450942
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Effects of New Business Formation on Regional Development over Time
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - In: Regional Studies 38 (2004) 8, pp. 961-975
Fritsch M. and Mueller P. (2004) Effects of new business formation on regional development over time, Regional Studies38, 961-975. In the analysis of the impact of new business formation on regional employment change, considerable time lags were identified. The structure and extent of these time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005452450
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Investigating the Anatomy of the Employment Effects of New Business Formation
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Recent empirical research has found that the effect of new business formation on employment emerges over a period of about ten years and has identified a 'wave' pattern of these effects. In this study, we decompose the overall contribution of new business formation on employment change into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970283
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Post-Materialism as a Cultural Factor Influencing Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations
Uhlaner, L.M.; Thurik, A.R.; Hutjes, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2002
The study of the determinants of entrepreneurship at the country level has been dominated by economic influences. The … relative stability of differences in levels of entrepreneurship across coun-tries suggests that other forces such as certain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970836