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Schooling, capital constraints and entrepreneurial performance

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2005

We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...

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A selection-based theory of the transition from employment to entrepreneurship : the role of employer size

Parker, Simon C. (contributor) - 2006

. -- entrepreneurship ; occupational choice ; firm size …

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The entrepreneur's mode of entry : business takeover or new venture start?

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2006

We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...

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Financing entrepreneurship and the old-boy network

Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - 2012

redistributive gains in the form of better loan terms as network members. -- entrepreneurship ; financiers ; networks ; start …

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Crowdfunding, cascades and informed investors

Parker, Simon C. - 2014

Do higher proportions of (a) informed investors and (b) high-quality projects increase the number of good projects that are ultimately financed via crowdfunding? A simple model and simulation reveals the answers to both questions to be: "not necessarily".

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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason; Parker, Simon C. - 2011

enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; capital constraints ; transitions ; entry barriers ; business start-ups …

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The entrepreneur's mode of entry : business takeover or new venture start?

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2006

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The entrepreneur's mode of entry : business takeover or new venture start?

Parker, Simon C. (contributor); … - 2006

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The entrepreneur's mode of entry : business takeover or new venture start

Parker, Simon C. (contributor); … - 2006

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The dynamics of entrepreneurship : hysteresis, business cycles and government policy

Congregado, Emilio; Golpe, Antonio A.; Parker, Simon C. - 2009

This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the … US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the …

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