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Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe

Bai, Jessica; Bernstein, Shai; Dev, Abhishek; Lerner, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper examines how government funding programs geared towards early-stage companies interact with private capital markets. Using hand-collected data on 755 government programs worldwide, we find that governments' allocations to such funding programs have been comparable to global venture...

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Getting Schooled : The Role of Universities in Attracting Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Immigrant founders of venture capital-backed companies have been critical to the entrepreneurial ecosystem. We document the channels through which immigrant founders find their way to the United States and how those channels have changed over time. Immigrants have been an important source of...

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More than an Ivory Tower : The Impact of Research Institutions on the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship

Tartari, Valentina; Stern, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

ecosystems. Assessing the impact of research institutions on entrepreneurship is challenging, given that these institutions are … measure both the quantity and quality-adjusted quantity of entrepreneurship at the zip-code level on an annual basis. We then … the quality-adjusted quantity of entrepreneurship. In contrast, increases in non-research funding to universities and …

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Entrepreneurial Reluctance : Talent and Firm Creation in China

Bai, Chong-En; Jia, Ruixue; Li, Hongbin; Wang, Xin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The theoretical literature has long noted that talent can be used in both the entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial sectors, and its allocation depends on the reward structure. We test these hypotheses by linking administrative college admissions data for 1.8 million individuals with the...

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The Economic Effects of Immigration Pardons : Evidence from Venezuelan Entrepreneurs

Bahar, Dany; Cowgill, Bo; Guzman, Jorge - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship. Using administrative census data linked to the complete formal …

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Transferable Skills? Founders as Venture Capitalists

Gompers, Paul A.; Mukharlyamov, Vladimir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In this paper we explore whether or not the experience as a founder of a venture capital-backed startup influences the performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs). We find that nearly 7% of VCs were previously founders of a venture-backed startup. Having a successful exit and...

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Race and Gender in Entrepreneurial Finance

Ewens, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …

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Partisan Entrepreneurship

Engelberg, Joseph; Guzman, Jorge; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

, we find that 6% of Republicans and 4% of Democrats become entrepreneurs. This partisan entrepreneurship gap is time …-varying: Republicans increase their relative entrepreneurship during Republican administrations and decrease it during Democratic … entrepreneurship around the elections of President Obama and President Trump, and the strongest effects among the most politically …

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The Effect of Immigration Policy on Founding Location Choice : Evidence from Canada's Start-up Visa Program

Lee, Saerom; Glennon, Britta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies …

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Learning by Investing : Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Venture Capital

Lerner, Joshua; Li, Jinlin; Liu, Tong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies how investing in venture capital (VC) affects the entrepreneurial outcomes of individual limited partners (LPs). Using comprehensive administrative data on entrepreneurial activities and VC fundraising and investments in China, we first document that individual LPs, on...

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