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565 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17800
Planning for Family Succession
Ciprian Domnisoru, Robert A. Miller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17794
Climate Technology Entrepreneurship: A Primer
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17778
On the Role of Legislation as a Driver of Incentive Management Practices in Europe
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17764
China’s Import Competition, Innovation and the Role of Unions
Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni
published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2025, 73, 423-433
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17730
(Mis)Pricing in Loans to Businesses Owned by People of Color
William D. Bradford, Chunbei Wang, Magnus Lofstrom, Michael Verchot
short version published as 'Are Loans to Minority-Owned Firms Mispriced?' in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2025, 115, 477–482
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17672
Long-Term and Lasting Impacts of Personal Initiative Training on Entrepreneurial Success
Francisco Campos, Michael Frese, Leonardo Iacovone, Hillary C. Johnson, David McKenzie, Mona Mensmann
forthcoming in: American Economic Review: Insights
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17668
Work from Home, Management, and Technology
Ryo Kambayashi, Atsushi Ohyama
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17655
Workers' Job Prospects and Young Firm Dynamics
Seula Kim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17581
Heterogeneous Innovations and Growth Under Imperfect Technology Spillovers
Karam Jo, Seula Kim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17571
Temporal Focus and Entrepreneurial Orientation of Solo Self-Employed Workers
Jinia Mukerjee, Roy Thurik, Ingrid Verheul
forthcoming in: International Review of Entrepreneurship, 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17548
Small Business Owners and Daily Recovery Experiences: The Link with Well-Being and Burnout
Mathieu Le Moal, Roy Thurik, Olivier Torrès, Guillaume Soenen
forthcoming in: Small Business Economics, 2026
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17517
Financing, Ownership, and Performance: A Novel, Longitudinal Firm-Level Database
J. David Brown, Steven J. Davis, Lucia Foster, John C. Haltiwanger, John Sabelhaus
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17504
Cut Off from New Competition: Threat of Entry and Quality of Primary Care
Eduard Brüll, Davud Rostam-Afschar, Oliver Schlenker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17478
Sharing the Fame but Taking the Blame: When Declaring a Single Person Responsible Solves a Free Rider Problem
Xinyu Li, Wendelin Schnedler
published online in: Management Science, 24 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17321
Business Disruptions Due to Social Vulnerability and Criminal Activities in Urban Areas
Nick Drydakis
published in: Journal of Criminal Justice, 2024, 95, 102293
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17319
Establishment Size and the Task Content of Jobs: Evidence from 46 Countries
Micole De Vera, Javier Garcia-Brazales
published in: Economica, 2025, 92 (366), 548-579
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17231
Entrepreneurs: Clueless, Biased, Poor Heuristics, or Bayesian Machines?
Thomas B. Astebro, Frank M. Fossen, Cédric Gutierrez
forthcoming in: A. Agrawal et al. (eds), Bayesian Entrepreneurship, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2026
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17206
The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (KSTE+I) Approach and the Advent of AI Technologies: Evidence from the European Regions
Francesco D’Alessandro, Enrico Santarelli, Marco Vivarelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17158
Entrepreneurship Is Dangerously Obsessed with Growth and Incompatible with Current Visions of a Post-growth Society
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17092
How Big Is Small? The Economic Effects of Access to Small Business Subsidies
J. David Brown, Matthew Denes, Ran Duchin, John Hackney
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