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Does entrepreneurial optimism affect business performance? Using a unique data setbased on repeated survey design, we investigate this relationship empirically. Ourmeasures of ‘optimism’ and ‘realism’ are derived from comparing the turnovergrowth expectations of 133 owners-managers with...
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We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types ofentrepreneurship across …. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in55 countries for 2001-2006, applying a …
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-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitordata merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient suggests …
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-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey datataken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Our …
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The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in mostdeveloped and developing market …
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In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become anentrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights andthe size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically bycombining...
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models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …
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This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when compared to other …
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This paper investigates the effect of business regulations on various measures of entrepreneurship. Using data for a … sample of countries participation in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 and 2005, we estimate a two …-equation model explaining the nascent and the actual entrepreneurship rate, while taking into account the interrelationship between …
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This paper investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure...
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