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Risk aversion and entrepreneurship : new evidence exploiting exposure to massive earthquakes in Italy
De Blasio, Guido; De Paola, Maria; Poy, Samuele; … - 2018
This paper investigates the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become an entrepreneur. In contrast to previous research, we handle endogeneity issues relying on an instrumental variables strategy considering as a source of exogenous variation in risk aversion the early exposure to a...
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Risk attitudes and self-employment in China
Hu, Feng - In: China & world economy 22 (2014) 3, pp. 101-126
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010411676
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What a difference a Y makes-female and male nascent entrepreneurs in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 28 (2007) 1, pp. 1-21
In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on … data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the …
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What a difference a Y makes : female and male nascent entrepreneurs in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on … data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013357732
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Risk preference and entrepreneurial investment at the top of the wealth distribution
Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2020
We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using novel survey data from the top of the wealth distribution, which have been added to the 2019 German Socio-economic Panel Study. The data include private wealth balance sheets,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389043
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Risk preference and entrepreneurial investment at the top of the wealth distribution
Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2021
We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using novel survey data from the top of the wealth distribution, which have been added to the 2019 German Socio-economic Panel Study. The data include private wealth balance sheets,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430244
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Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship
Hvide, Hans K. - 2013
A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but perform worse. We test these predictions with two risk tolerance proxies: stock market participation and personal leverage. Using investment data for 400,000 individuals, we...
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Advancing entrepreneurial career success : the role of passion, persistence, and risk-taking propensity
Al Issa, Hussein-Elhakim - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 9 (2021) 2, pp. 135-150
Objective: The objective of the article is to investigate the influence of passion on entrepreneurial career success while the mediating effects of persistence and risk-taking propensity between passion and success are explored. Research Design & Methods: Questionnaires were administered to...
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Risk Tolerance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship : The Palestinian Case
Daoud, Yousef - 2018
the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Adult Population Survey (APS) data for 2009, 2010, and 2012 for a number of … reduce the predicted probability of entrepreneurship consistently over time. The only variable that consistently predicts fof … importance of reducing the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Particularly, in order to encourage more females to be entrepreneurs …
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