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Entrepreneurial optimism and survival
Hyytinen, Ari; Lahtonen, Jukka; Pajarinen, Mika - 2012
This paper uses entrepreneurs´ survival expectations around the time of market entry and subsequent venture exits to … study entrepreneurial optimism. Using data on a large number of nascent entrepreneurs in the US and start-ups in Finland, we … find that new entrepreneurs´ survival beliefs are on average optimistic but heterogeneous: Some are excessively optimistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148154
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Footloose Multinationals in Belgium
Van Beveren, Ilke - 2006
Using firm level panel data for the years 1996-2001, covering all sectors of the economy, the impact of multinational ownership on the exit decisions of firms located in Belgium is estimated. In the analysis, I clearly distinguish for nationality of ownership, allowing for possible differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313304
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Footloose Multinationals in Belgium
Beveren, Ilke Van - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2006
Using firm level panel data for the years 1996-2001, covering all sectors of the economy, the impact of multinational ownership on the exit decisions of firms located in Belgium is estimated. In the analysis, I clearly distinguish for nationality of ownership, allowing for possible differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088356
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Hoping to win, expected to lose: Theory and lessons on micro enterprise development
Karlan, Dean; Knight, Ryan; Udry, Christopher - 2012
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369061
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Perspectives on the Success and Early History of the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research (IUI)
Henrekson, Magnus - 2009
The Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research (IUI) was founded in 1939. In less than ten years, IUI grew from a small survey bureau to a leading research institute focused on microeconomic research relevant to industrial development. Based on a number of new commemorative essays and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320347
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The impact of consulting services on small and medium enterprises: Evidence from a randomized trial in Mexico
Bruhn, Miriam; Karlan, Dean; Schoar, Antoinette - 2012
We test whether managerial human capital has a first order effect on the performance and growth of small enterprises in emerging markets. In a randomized control trial in Puebla, Mexico, we randomly assigned 150 out of 432 small and medium size enterprises to receive subsidized consulting...
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Perspectives on the success and early history of the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research (IU)
Henrekson, Magnus - 2009
research ; Creativity ; Entrepreneurship ; Research institute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872570
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Entrepreneurial Optimism and Survival
Hyytinen, Ari - 2012
This paper uses entrepreneurs' survival expectations around the time of market entry and subsequent venture exits to … study entrepreneurial optimism. Using data on a large number of nascent entrepreneurs in the US and start-ups in Finland, we … find that new entrepreneurs survival beliefs are on average optimistic but heterogeneous: Some are excessively optimistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104176
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Are Ownership Rent and Pure Profit Separate Returns to the Entrepreneur?
Salerno, Joseph T. - 2019
this paper, I argue that Topan's critique rests on fundamental misconceptions about the nature of entrepreneurship in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891965
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Non-Profits and the Profit Non-Distribution Constraint with Selfish Entrepreneurial Motivations
Mori, Pier Angelo - 2018
The profit non-distribution constraint (NDC) is the basic requirement for non-profit tax privileges all over the world. In donative non-profits it is justified by the need to prevent donors' exploitation by firm owners. Donative non-profits, however, are not the only type of third-sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922155