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This study explores individual and country-level environmental drivers of informal "seed" investment. We examine four types of informal investors based on business ownership experience (or no such experience) and close family relationship with investee (or no such relationship): "classic love...
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Financial theory creates a puzzle. Some authors argue that high-risk entrepreneurs choose debt contracts instead of equity contracts since risky but high returns are of relatively more value for a loan-financed firm. On the contrary, authors who focus explicitly on start-up finance predict that...
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Das Entstehen und die Entwicklung von jungen Unternehmen wird maßgeblich durch Finanzierungsprobleme behindert. Inhalt des vorliegenden Arbeitspapiers ist die Auseinandersetzung mit einem möglichen Lösungsansatz dieser Probleme. Es wird aufgezeigt, welche Möglichkeiten jungen innovativen...
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We analyze financial support for the entrepreneurial sector. State support can raise welfare by relaxing financial constraints, but it can also reduce lending standards if entrepreneurs substitute public sources of collateral for their own assets, if it encourages excessive entrepreneurial...
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In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein Modell beschrieben, mit dem Ungleichverteilungen von VC untersucht werden. Im Zentrum stehen zwei Hypothesen: Die Spezialisierungshypothese, nach deren Aussage kein stattlicher Eingriff erforderlich ist, und die Hypothese der ineffizienten...
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It is now widely acknowledged that the entrepreneurial capacity in an economy is a key determinant of economic growth and productivity improvements. This paper uses survey data from the 15 EU Member States and the US to establish the effect of demographic and other variables on latent and actual...
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