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This study examines the impact of online feedback on the extent of alternative startups’ fundraising success or failure through reward-based online crowdfunding platforms. By drawing on regulatory focus theory, we theorize that online feedback relating to products or services is crucial in...
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We examine how investor-level tax incentives affect financing for start-ups using the introduction of a generous tax deduction for qualified angel and VC investment in China as a quasi-natural experiment. We find that the tax incentive increases funding for eligible start-ups, with stronger...
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The original intention of the government was to provide financial subsidies to firms by implementing innovation support policies. In turn, this will encourage these firms to carry out technological innovation activities. However, there are still differing views in the academic community on...
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The Cultural Revolution deprived Chinese students of the opportunity to receive higher education for 10 years when colleges and universities were closed from 1966-1976. We examine the human capital cost of this loss of education on subsequent innovation by firms, and ask if it impacted firms...
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How do interactions between institutional investors and sponsors affect the quotations in IPOs? This paper provides evidence that connections between the above two agencies result in variations in the institutional investors' quoted prices and quotation frequency in China stock market. Using a...
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We investigate the impact of the geographic proximity of underwriters on bond characteristics by using corporate and enterprise bonds issued in China from 2009 to 2019. We find bonds underwritten by underwriters in close geographic proximity are associated with lower financing costs, longer...
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Using the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we estimate the effect of higher education on entrepreneurship … education are less likely to enter entrepreneurship in general, obtaining any qualification beyond the baseline of compulsory …
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Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged … gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distributed … of entrepreneurship for both manufacturing and services. For both sectors, entrepreneurship (measured by new private …
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an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the … entrepreneurship. …
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We investigate the effect of exposure to air pollution on an individual's likelihood towards entrepreneurship using … panel data in China. To address omitted variable bias and endogeneity arising from self-selection into entrepreneurship and … propensity for entrepreneurship and a 34 percentage points decrease in the likelihood of entrepreneurial diversification. Our …
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