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Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle : Stylized Facts from US Venture Capital Activity
Khan, Hashmat U - 2016
We consider US Venture Capital (VC) activity as a measure of entrepreneurship and study its relationship with the … a bi-directional causality between entrepreneurship and economic activity. A positive shock to VC activity has a … positive effect on real GDP. Our findings can help inform policies designed to support entrepreneurship …
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Állami segítséggel történő startup finanszírozás nemzetközi tapasztalatai
Karsai, Judit - 2021
The government has an important role to play in financing each stage of development of startups. Most of the financing for startups is provided by non-reimbursable public grants and lending, the latter supported by government guarantees. The role of venture capital is much smaller. However, the...
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Accelerators as a Tool for Encouraging Female Entrepreneurship
Avnimelech, Gil; Rechter, Eyal - 2021
known barriers for female entrepreneurship, we examined how accelerators may enhance female entrepreneurship by addressing … as means of increasing women’s participation rates in innovative entrepreneurship …
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The Effect of Tax Incentives on Local Private Investments and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
Xu, Jiajie - 2022
Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, on local private investments and entrepreneurship. Using a difference-in-differences approach … private investments have led to decreases in local new business registration. The decrease in entrepreneurship was mainly in …
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Green Start-Ups and the Role of Founder Personality
Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2022
Green start-ups play a vital role in the needed transition towards more environmentally sustainable economies. Yet our understanding of why some founders start green ventures and others do not remains incomplete. We build on the cognitive and decision-making perspectives on start-ups...
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How Much Should an Investor Trust the Startup Entrepreneur?
Klabunde, Anna - 2014
Trust is an important determinant of start-up financing. In a simple agentbased model it is determined what the best trusting strategy is for a collective of investors and whether it is rational for an individual investor to deviate from this collective optimum. Trust depends on a measure of...
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The Economic Impact of Entrepreneurship : Comparing International Datasets
Cumming, Douglas J. - 2014
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The Economic Impact of Entrepreneurship : Comparing International Datasets
Cumming, Douglas J. - 2014
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Alumni Networks in Entrepreneurial Financing
Garfinkel, Jon A.; Mayer, Erik J.; Yimfor, Emmanuel - 2022
One in three deals in the early-stage financing market involves an investor and founder from the same alma mater. We show that founders' connections to early-stage investors through shared education networks are more important than school academic quality or shared geography in facilitating...
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Badge of honor or scarlet letter? : unpacking investors' judgment of entrepreneurs' past failure
Zunino, Diego; Praag, Mirjam van; Dushnitsky, Gary - 2017
Research shows that most ventures fail, yet it has devoted limited attention to the consequences of entrepreneurs’ past failure for investors' decisions. Our motivating insight is that failure can be due to bad luck, lack of skill or both. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information...
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