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Initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial venture performance
Praag, Mirjam van; Wit, Gerrit de; Bosma, Niels - 2004
This article investigates empirically whether and to what extent initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial performance once the venture has been started. Prior empirical research in this area could investigate this issue only indirectly by lack of data. The key contribution of this...
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Initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial venture performance : an empirical analysis
Praag, Mirjam van - 2003
A novel method is applied to evaluate the effect of capital constraints on entrepreneurial performance on a panel of 1,000 Dutch entrepreneurs. We find that initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurs in their performance, even when we control for various human capital and other factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506454
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Entrepreneurship, economic risks, and risk-insurance in the welfare state
Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Kanniainen, Vesa; Lammi, Uki - 1999
We find strong evidence in the OECD country panel data to support the Knightian view that non-diversifiable economic risks shape the equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and labor risk is found to be statistically...
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Which Institutional Investors Matter for Firm Survival and Performance?
Smith, Janet Kiholm - 2013
We assess the diverse roles of institutional investors in impacting survival and performance of chronically underperforming firms and contrast the results for consistently overperforming firms. We find material differences in institutional investor roles between these two samples....
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Can US Stocks Provide a Safe Haven from Interest and Inflation Risk? A Sector Level Examination of the Response to Unanticipated Nominal, Real Interest and Inflation Rate Shocks
Gonzalez, Maria - 2016
This paper examines the relation between stock returns and unexpected changes in nominal and real interest rates and inflation for the US stock market. With the exception of Sweeney and Warga (1986), we are the first to examine this relation in detail by breaking the results down from the US...
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Initial Capital Constraints Hinder Entrepreneurial Venture Performance : An Empirical Analysis
van Praag, Mirjam - 2021
A novel method is applied to evaluate the effect of capital constraints on entrepreneurial performance on a panel of 1,000 Dutch entrepreneurs. We find that initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurs in their performance, even when we control for various human capital and other factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320045
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Risks, and Risk Insurance in the Welfare State : Results with OECD Data 1978-93
Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2021
We find evidence in the OECD cross-country data to support the Knightian view that non-diversifiable economic risks shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and labor risk is found to be statistically significant and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321132
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The Determinants of Merger Waves : An International Perspective
Mueller, Dennis C.; Gugler, Klaus Peter - 2008
and other influences by examining merger patterns for both listed and unlisted firms. If "real" changes in the economy … drive merger waves, as some neoclassical theories of mergers predict, both listed and unlisted firms should experience waves …. We find significant differences between listed and unlisted firms as predicted by behavioral theories of merger waves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214324
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Exports and profitability : a note from quantile regression approach
Huong Vu; Holmes, Mark J.; Lim, Steven; Tran, Tuyen - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 4/6, pp. 442-445
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Geographic and demographic Bank outreach : evidence from Germany's three-pillar banking system
Conrad, Alexander; Neuberger, Doris; Schneider-Reißig, … - 2008
This paper investigates the performance of Germany's three-pillar banking system in providing financial services nationwide, regarding different outreach indicators. At the federal state level, bank outreach shows South-North and West-East gaps. Combining regional and bank data at the district...
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