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Research summary: The discovery of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the spread of COVID-19 have led many governments to … effects of future crises.Managerial summary: The lockdown measures as a response to the spread of the new corona-virus … threaten the existence of many innovative startups. Our rapid response research first illus-trates the challenges entrepreneurs …
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We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a randomized controlled trial, we estimate sizeable effects of the 6-week training on entrepreneurial activity. One month after the...
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COVID-19 brought about a shift in entrepreneurial opportunities and in the United States. In this paper, we proxy entrepreneurial processes by examining housing prices in different regions of the United States. Housing prices capture the movement in people, tax dynamics, and behavioral...
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Objective: The major objectives of the article were to explore the effects of the fear and anxiety of Covid-19 and business opportunity recognition on start-up self-efficacy, entrepreneurial intention, and behaviour, as well as to test entrepreneurial intention-behaviour association. Research...
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The COVID-19 pandemic severely affected not only incumbent firms, but also the emergence of start-ups. This paper investigates and analyzes the pandemic's effect on new business formation, as well as business exits and insolvencies, in Germany. We find that the overall level of business...
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The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the “Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on...
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COVID-19 has brought widespread changes to the lives and livelihoods of entrepreneurs across the United States. The …. Entrepreneurs are facing a threat to their health and that of their families, employees, and customers, as well as an economic … uncertainty about future changes in each of these domains.How is COVID-19 affecting entrepreneurs? And how has it changed the …
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