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352 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14928
A Procedural Perspective on Academic Spin-off Creation: The Changing Relevance of Academic and Commercial Logics
Uwe Cantner, Philip Doerr, Maximilian Göthner, Matthias Huegel, Martin Kalthaus
published in: Small Business Economics, 2024, 62, 1555–1590
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14894
A Golden Opportunity: The Gold Rush, Entrepreneurship and Culture
Michael Stuetzer, Abel Brodeur, Martin Obschonka, David Audretsch, Peter J. Rentfrow, Jeff Potter, Samuel D. Gosling
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14891
The Cost of Health Insurance and Entry into Entrepreneurship
Frank M. Fossen, Mobarak Hossain, Sankar Mukhopadhyay, Peter Toth
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2025, 64, 383-405
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14655
Does Education Enhance Entrepreneurship?
Kunwon Ahn, John V. Winters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14630
Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses
Maksim Belitski, Christina Guenther, Alexander S. Kritikos, Roy Thurik
published in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 58 (2), 593-609
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14586
Energy Poverty and Entrepreneurship
Zhiming Cheng, Massimiliano Tani, Haining Wang
published in: Energy Economics, 2021, 102, 105469
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14458
Calling Baumol: What Telephones Can Tell Us about the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Talent in the Face of Radical Institutional Changes
Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich
revised version published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2022, 37(5), 106246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14310
Does Higher Education Make You More Entrepreneurial? Causal Evidence from China
Bin Huang, Massimiliano Tani, Yu Zhu
published in: Journal of Business Research, 2021, 135, 543-558.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14216
Testing the Differential Impact of COVID-19 on Self-Employed Women and Men in the United Kingdom
Darja Reuschke, Andrew Henley, Elizabeth Daniel, Victoria Price
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14188
On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship
Harriet Duleep, David A. Jaeger, Peter McHenry
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14169
Competitiveness of Entrepreneurs and Salaried Workers
Loukas Balafoutas, Mongoljin Batsaikhan, Matthias Sutter
revised version published in: Management Science, 2024, 70 (5), 2900 - 2911
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14154
The Rise and Fall of German Innovation
Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13951
Risk Preference and Entrepreneurial Investment at the Top of the Wealth Distribution
Frank M. Fossen, Johannes König, Carsten Schröder
revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2024, 66, 735–761
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13897
Talking Business: New Evidence on How Language Shapes Economic Behaviour
Francesco Campo, Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13875
Export-Led Growth after COVID-19: The Case of Portugal
Wim Naudé, Martin Cameron
published in: Notas Economicas, 2021, 52 (1), 7–53
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13854
Finance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship: India's Informal Sector Firms
Ira N. Gang, Rajesh Raj Natarajan, Kunal Sen
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58 (7), 1383-1402
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13835
Extreme Events, Entrepreneurial Start-Ups, and Innovation: Theoretical Conjectures
Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé
published in: Economics of Disaster and Climate Change, 2021, 5, 329–353
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13773
Why Are Africa's Female Entrepreneurs Not Playing the Export Game? Evidence from Ghana
Charles G. Ackah, Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley, Cecília Hornok
published as 'Africa’s Businesswomen – Underfunded or Underperforming?' in: Small Business Economics, 2024, 62 (3), 1051-1074
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13708
Access to Finance among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Job Creation in Africa
Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye, Urbain Thierry Yogo
published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020, 55, 177 - 189
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13707
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Robert W. Fairlie
published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2020, 29 (4), 727 - 740
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