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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2012

Many governments promote small businesses for the dual reasons of fostering 'breakthrough' innovations and employment growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation project and on their mode of commercializing the...

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Multiple-project financing with informed trading

Cantale, Salvatore; Lukin, Dmitry - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 16 (2012) 1, pp. 1-28

consider the financing problem of an entrepreneur who has access to two investment projects and needs to raise external … financing to undertake these projects in the presence of asymmetric information. The entrepreneur has private information about … types of informed traders and each type knows the true value of a different project, the entrepreneur will always choose to …

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Beyond Innovators and Imitators : A Taxonomy of Entrepreneurs

Manimala, Mathew J. - 2012

In an earlier study of the policy orientations of innovative entrepreneurs, it was observed that there were considerable variations within the high-innovation and low-innovation groups identified for the purpose of comparing policy orientations. The possibility of identifying sub-types within...

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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao - 2011

This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balanced skill profiles, making them more likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills...

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Does Quality Make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups

Fritsch, Michael - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...

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Entrepreneurship : Cause or Consequence of Financial Optimism?

Dawson, Christopher J. - 2012

Extant evidence that the self-employed overestimate their returns by more than employees do is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities. Self-employment may generate optimism or optimists may be drawn to self-employment. This paper finds that employees who will be self-employed in...

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Crowdfunding Under Market Feedback, Asymmetric Information And Overconfident Entrepreneur

Miglo, Anton - 2020

more profitable than reward-based crowdfunding when an entrepreneur is overconfident. This is because the entrepreneur …

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Effects of Wealth Inequality on Entrepreneurship

Frid, Casey - 2019

This study examines whether personal net worth affects new venture creation and performance. Prior research on wealth and entrepreneurial entry has relied on data providing only a snapshot of the transition into self-employment. The present study draws on a sample of US nascent entrepreneurs...

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The Impact of Learning and Overconfidence on Entrepreneurial Entry and Exit

Chen, John S. - 2018

Empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs make mistakes: too many enter markets and, once there, persist too long. While scholars have largely settled on behavioral bias as the cause, we suggest that this consensus is premature. These mistakes may also arise from a process in which...

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Crowdfunding Under Market Feedback, Asymmetric Information And Overconfident Entrepreneur

Miglo, Anton - 2018

more profitable than reward-based crowdfunding when an entrepreneur is overconfident. This is because either the … entrepreneur learns from the sale of shares before making production decisions or because the crowd anticipates the entrepreneur …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925818

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