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Public economics and startup entrepreneurs

Boadway, Robin W.; Tremblay, Jean-Francois - 2003

This paper surveys the various forms of market failure that can arise when innovating entrepreneurs consider entering an industry, and outlines possible implications for public policy. Externalities can arise from entrepreneurial activities such as spillover benefits from new innovations and...

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Public policy for start-up entrepreneurship with venture capital and bank finance

Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo - 2003

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Tax policy and entrepreneurship in the presence of asymmetric information in capital markets

Fuest, Clemens; Huber, Bernd; Tillessen, Philipp - 2003

This paper considers the implications of asymmetric information in capital markets for entrepreneurial entry and tax policy. In many countries, governments subsidize the creation of new firms. One possible justification for these subsidies is that capital markets for the financing of new firms...

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Entrepreneurship in a unionised economy

Kanniainen, Vesa; Leppämäki, Mikko - 2000

labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated … numerically. The main result is that an increase in union power reduces the equilibrium rate of entrepreneurship and reduces the …

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Entrepreneurship, economic risks, and risk insurance in the welfare state : results with OECD data 1978 - 93

Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000

shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurship and … labor risk is found to be statistically significant and detrimental to entrepreneurship. The crowding-out effect of public … production of private goods on entrepreneurship dominates the crowding-in effect of public production of public goods in the OECD …

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Enterprise formation and labor market institutions

Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2000

The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...

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Creating firms for a new century : determinants of firm creation around 1900

Baten, Jörg - 2003

A rapidly growing literature in industrial economics and regional economics uses data sets of individual firms or regional firm creation rates to answer the central question: What makes entrepreneurs? Which factors encourage some people to set up their own business and create jobs, and what...

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Public policy for venture capital

Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo - 2001

investment, and output subsidies at the production stage. While these measures stimulate entrepreneurship, only cost …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001601270

Unemployment in Germany : reasons and remedies

Berthold, Norbert; Fehn, Rainer - 2003

. Barriers to entrepreneurship, to setting up new firms and to innovations which are prevalent on goods and capital markets also …

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Initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial venture performance : an empirical analysis

Praag, Mirjam van - 2003

A novel method is applied to evaluate the effect of capital constraints on entrepreneurial performance on a panel of 1,000 Dutch entrepreneurs. We find that initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurs in their performance, even when we control for various human capital and other factors...

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