organizational structure that combines business processes entrepreneurs and agricultural cooperatives. …

Existing empirical evidence suggest that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence … entrepreneurs have more favorable beliefs about nationwide conditions. We then show that these entrepreneurs’ beliefs are relatively … good predictors of the future. We conclude from these two findings that entrepreneurs are less biased towards optimism than …

Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as … bias or not. We show that entrepreneurs have more favorable beliefs about nationwide conditions and then that these … entrepreneurs’ beliefs are relatively good predictors of the future. We conclude from these two findings that entrepreneurs are less …

terrorist attacks influence individual perceptions of the rewards to entrepreneurship and, more surprisingly, extreme events … affect entrepreneurship rates positively in a robust and significant way. …