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Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size
Kerr, William - 2015
Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among …
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Financing Constraints, Home Equity and Selection into Entrepreneurship
Jensen, Thais Lærkholm; Leth‐Petersen, Søren; … - 2021
We exploit a mortgage reform that differentially unlocked home equity across the Danish population and study how this impacted selection into entrepreneurship. We find that increased entry was concentrated among entrepreneurs whose firms were founded in industries where they had no prior work...
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Seeking the roots of entrepreneurship : insights from behavioral economics
Åstebro, Thomas; Herz, Holger; Nanda, Ramana; Weber, … - 2014
In this article, we critically evaluate what the existing research shows regarding the individual determinants of entrepreneurship. We begin by documenting a set of facts that seem to pose a challenge for interpretations of entrepreneurship based on the standard expected utility framework....
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House money and entrepreneurship
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - 2015
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...
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Financing high-potential entrepreneurship : government should create an enabling environment-for entrepreneurs and investors-rather than try to pick "winners"
Nanda, Ramana - 2016
Entrepreneurship is essential to job creation and to productivity growth and therefore is an important matter for government policy. However, policymakers face a difficult challenge because successful growth for a few firms-which cannot easily be identified in advance-is accompanied by...
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Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry
Nanda, Ramana; Khanna, Tarun - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2007
This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurs in developing countries by examining ties between the Indian expatriate community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that local entrepreneurs who have previously lived outside India...
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Entrepreneurship as experimentation
Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana; Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew - 2014
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 made. At a macro level experimentation by...
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Location Choice for New Ventures : Cities
Kerr, William; Nanda, Ramana - 2012
Location choice is a critical decision for entrepreneurs. This note explores how entrepreneurs should think about different city options through a systematic framework that encompasses professional and personal issues. We use the intellectual frameworks of the cluster and industry agglomeration...
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1366 Technologies : Scaling the Venture
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Nanda, Ramana; Kiron, David; … - 2012
For some time, 1366's co-founders, Frank van Mierlo and Ely Sachs, had faced a choice, which was now made all the more stark: 1366 could expand to produce silicon wafers itself, raising the required capital from "friendly" investors and building shipment volume slowly, or 1366 could accelerate...
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Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector
Ghosh, Shikhar; Nanda, Ramana - 2013
technologies in the United States. While there are several start-ups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional … sector that are particularly acute for start-ups involved in the production of clean energy. One of key bottlenecks … technologies. Second, they do not tend to feel as threatened by potential competition from clean energy start-ups, given the market …
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