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Immigrant entrepreneurs are a major driver of economic growth, and their decisions about where to locate can greatly …
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robust and comes with more realistic interest rate dynamics. Agents productivities as workers and entrepreneurs evolve …
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A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but …
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It is well known that innovation law and policy must strike a balance between incentivizing inventions on the one hand, and granting monopolies to successful innovators on the other. In achieving this balance, it is commonly presumed that actors in innovation markets respond to their economic...
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This paper presents evidence on the role of the endowment effect in shaping the risk-taking behavior of entrepreneurs … 466 entrepreneurs in Cali, Colombia. Results show that entrepreneurs are more likely to accept riskier bets when those are … entrepreneurs prefer to continue operating their underperforming firms, as well as why many entrepreneurs overvalue their firms …
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We show that an increase in aggregate uncertainty-measured by stock market volatility-reduces productivity growth more in industries that depend heavily on external finance. This effect is larger during recessions, when financing constraints are more likely to be binding, than during expansions....
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In the traditional Becker model of employer discrimination, discriminatory behavior arises from a utility-maximizing owner who balances firm profits against the disutility of hiring workers from the disadvantaged demographic group. However, in the modern firm, many human resource decisions are...
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Uncertainty and institutions are each vital concepts in entrepreneurship research. However, little work has been done … how entrepreneurs can both cause and mitigate this uncertainty through market and institutional action. Finally, we focus … on a special case of institutional uncertainty, “regime uncertainty”, wherein entrepreneurs are left without reliable …
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employed, and (ii) in response to increasing unemployment rate, the propensity to become entrepreneurs increases for employed … entrepreneurship and unemployment with endogenous job destructions. Entry decision into entrepreneurship is affected by an … the model. Also, unemployment benefits can be beneficial to the economy by inducing more nascent entrepreneurs from …
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