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Heuvel, Matthias van den; Popp, David - 2022

After a boom and bust cycle in the early 2010s, venture capital (VC) investments are, once again, flowing towards green businesses. In this paper, we use Crunchbase data on 150,000 US startups founded between 2000 and 2020 to better understand why VC initially did not prove successful in funding...

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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 that might affect both performance and credit scoring outcomes. We use a …

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Modeling institutions, start-ups and productivity during transition

Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs - 2010

The transition paths from plan to market have varied markedly across countries. Central and Eastern European and the Baltic countries, which opted for a fast and profound transformation of their institutions including business climates, rapidly narrowed the productivity gap with advanced...

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Immigrant entrepreneurship

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...

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