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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Evidence on Inheritance and Capital Constraints
Blanchflower, David - 1990
The paper studies the factors which shape entrepreneurship among young adults. It finds, using data on a British birth …
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Enabling Entrepreneurial Choice
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2020
Entrepreneurs must choose between alternative strategies for bringing their idea to market. They face uncertainty regarding both the quality of their idea as well as the efficacy of each strategy. While entrepreneurs can reduce this uncertainty by conducting tests, any single test conflates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481574
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The Geography of Crowdfunding
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2011
Perhaps the most striking feature of "crowdfunding" is the broad geographic dispersion of investors in small, early-stage projects. This contrasts with existing theories that predict entrepreneurs and investors will be co-located due to distance-sensitive costs. We examine a crowdfunding setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461837
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Enabling Entrepreneurial Choice
Gans, Joshua S. - 2020
Entrepreneurs must choose between alternative strategies for bringing their idea to market. They face uncertainty regarding both the quality of their idea as well as the efficacy of each strategy. While entrepreneurs can reduce this uncertainty by conducting tests, any single test conflates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835101
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The Geography of Crowdfunding
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2014
Perhaps the most striking feature of "crowdfunding'' is the broad geographic dispersion of investors. This contrasts with existing theories that predict entrepreneurs and investors will be co-located due to distance-sensitive costs. We examine a crowdfunding setting that connects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069152
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The Geography of Crowdfunding
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2014
Perhaps the most striking feature of "crowdfunding" is the broad geographic dispersion of investors in small, early-stage projects. This contrasts with existing theories that predict entrepreneurs and investors will be co-located due to distance-sensitive costs. We examine a crowdfunding setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068501
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Enabling Entrepreneurial Choice
Agrawal, Ajay K.; Gans, Joshua S.; Stern, Scott - 2022
Entrepreneurs must choose between alternative strategies for bringing their idea to market. They face uncertainty regarding both the quality of their idea as well as the efficacy of each strategy. While entrepreneurs can reduce this uncertainty by conducting tests, any single test conflates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291843
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Sticking It Out: Entrepreneurial Survival and Liquidity Constraints
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Joulfaian, David; Rosen, Harvey - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701676
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Sticking It Out: Entrepreneurial Survival and Liquidity Constraints
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Joulfaian, David; Rosen, Harvey - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720826
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Public Policy and the Economics of Entrepreneurship
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
Entrepreneurship has been a subject of much recent discussion among academics and policymakers because of the belief … W. Bush promoted his economic plan by pointing to its encouragement of entrepreneurship. Yet, despite its importance …, the topic of entrepreneurship is underrepresented in the economics literature. The contributors to Public Policy and the …
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