Several empirical studies showed that it is not the level of entrepreneurial activity itself, but the (long-term) survival and growth of new firms that determine the direct and indirect contribution of new businesses to regional employment. To this end, the aim of this paper is to analyze the...

Whereas broadband coverage with speeds of up to 30 Mbit/s is quite high, Europe is generally lagging behind in the roll-out of high-performance, future-proof fibre networks (Fibre-To-The-Home/ Fibre-To-The-Building). Yet, some European countries have been quite successful in their efforts to...

This article analyses the performance and value creation of the glamorous operations of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the telecommunications sector, trying to understand if the glamour company's M&A operations conduct to the stockholder wealth maximization, and the role of acquirer's...

We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball teams. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on the team's risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several empirical strategies,...