Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer surveys (2002 and 2003) containing over 20,000 observations are used. Other than demographic …

This paper investigates the variation in entrepreneurship across cities of the Commonwealth of Independent States … suggest that banking reform facilitates entrepreneurship, whereas the size of the state discourages it. Our results confirm a … U-shaped relationship between per-capita income and entrepreneurship. We also find that cities with higher concentration …

growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation … tax system induce entrepreneurs to choose projects with too little risk and this problem arises primarily when … entrepreneurs market their product themselves. When innovations reduce only the fixed costs of production this leads to a …

This paper studies gender discrimination against entrepreneurs by financial institutions. Based on the Business … Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) that covers firms in several countries of Western Europe as well as in the … transition countries of Eastern Europe, our analysis suggests that female-managed firms are less likely to obtain a bank loan …

institutions with better incentive structures for entrepreneurs are perceived as being of higher quality by this group. We find … institutional quality is related to less acceptance by entrepreneurs compared to the rest of society. …

-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly … that while both male and female entrepreneurs in ECA are sub-optimally small, women's returns to scale are significantly …