Excess entry and entrepreneurial decisions: the role of overconfidence / Philipp Koellinger, Mari Minniti, and Christian Schade -- Understanding the gender gap in entrepreneurship: a multicountry examination / I. Elaine Allen and Nan S. Langowitz -- Defining and identifying family...

The aim of this paper is to better understand how entrepreneurial equity finance interacts with the complex growth process of young technological ventures. More specially, we investigate how different growth paths are influenced by the entrepreneurs' interactions with different categories of...

After a decade characterized by a difficult transition from central planning and administration towards free-market economy, the conditions of growth in Bulgaria have gradually been improving. Stimulating growth and improving the social position of the population are important factors for...

R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth (strong scale effect) or the level of per capita income (weak scale effect), with far-reaching policy implications. However, for modern times there is little empirical support for...

R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth (strong scale effect) or the level of per capita income (weak scale effect), with far-reaching policy implications. However, for modern times there is little empirical support for...

Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole U.S. private sector economy, we examine the impact of these externalities, as measured by entrepreneurial activity, on...