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Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
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To what extent is the performance of a small business venture, once started, affected by capital constraints at the time of inception and by the business founder's investment in human capital? We attempt to answer this question taking into account the potential endogeneity of human and financial...
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This paper provides a meta-analytical review of empirical studies into the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship … selection and performance. We first describe the main effects found in the current entrepreneurship literature. We then explain … conclusions result from this meta-analysis. First, we find that the impact of education on selection into entrepreneurship is …
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This dissertation explores how economic, organizational, and personal factors affect self-employment transitions, occupational decisions, and firm formation activities of individuals at different positions in the skill distribution. The first essay of my dissertation studies how local...
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and entrepreneurship in selected former Yugoslav countries. The goal was to determine whether firms’ objective remains the … firms, entrepreneurship, and self-employment.The answers and insights provided by these three essays reveal that merely … entrepreneurship and therefore cannot always serve as a basis for future growth. The first essay uses Macedonian firm-level data to …
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Using data from the confidential and restricted-access Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO) Survey, we provide some suggestive evidence on the causes of intergenerational links in business ownership and the related issue of how having a family business background affects small business...
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Comparative international entrepreneurship research has often used measures of high-growth expectations … entrepreneurship to proxy for the construct of high-impact entrepreneurship. We revisit this practice by assessing the cross …-country association between high-growth expectations and realized high-impact entrepreneurship to speak to construct measurement fit. We …
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Today entrepreneurship education is an important issue to improve the process of creating new firm assuming new risks …
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. Specifically, we derive comparative equilibrium conditions for entrepreneurship as a driver for innovation with and without a …
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I consider a developer creating a new blockchain-based decentralized digital platform. Users can perform exchanges on the decentralized digital platform only by using a specific crypto-token. The entire stock of this token is initially owned by the developer, who can sell some in an Initial Coin...
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