Sociologists have shown that "third places" such as neighborhood cafés help people maintain and use their network ties. Do they help local entrepreneurs, for whom networks are important? We examine whether the introduction of Starbucks cafés into U.S. neighborhoods with no coffee shops...

In this paper it is shown that barriers to entrepreneurship increase unemployment rate. This will be feasible by using panel data econometric analysis. Data are annual and cover Western European countries, Japan and the United States for the period 1998-2003. The elaboration of these data is...

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using census data from the three largest developed countries in the world receiving Indian immigrants - the United States, United Kingdom and Canada - the authors examine the performance of...

The purpose of this research endeavor — in the form of eight articles — to be published in 2013 in a Special Section of Industrial and Corporate Change is to further our understanding of the extent, character and orientation of entrepreneurial activity in today’s wealthy countries. This is...

We show that the rise of crowdfunding over the past decade fostered entrepreneurship and output growth in the United States. We develop measures of crowdfunding activity at the county level based on all projects successfully funded on Kickstarter (the largest US platform). We find that an...

This paper investigates the effects of funding from family and friends (i.e. informal funding) on start-ups' subsequent access to venture capital. We retrieve information on young U.S. firms' financing activity from a novel dataset based on private placements filings (Form Ds). To address...

This paper examines whether a proactive personality instrument, designed to assess whether an individual possesses personality traits often linked to entrepreneurship, is robust to international applications. We present the instrument to three cohorts of MBA students: a group in Michigan,...

Using microdata from the U.S. Survey of Business Owners (SBO) released in 2012, this study examines transnational activities of immigrant-owned businesses in three aspects: whether they export, outsource jobs, and have overseas establishments. Results show that immigrant-owned firms have...

This paper uses the Stansel (2013) economic freedom index for a maximum of 375 U.S. metropolitan areas to estimate the effect of economic freedom on entrepreneurship while controlling for spatial dependence. This paper finds positive and statistically significant evidence that increases in...

The rate of new business startups has fallen drastically over the last thirty-five years, accelerating greatly since the year 2000. Other measures of business dynamism such as the job reallocation rate are consistent with this trend, raising serious concern given the importance that young, high...