Because entrepreneurship entails uncertainty, business failure is a common outcome for
entrepreneurs. When entrepreneurs encounter business failure, they carry a financial …

Purpose There are countless factors that affect where an entrepreneur chooses to open a
business that have been studied in the literature, including local socio-economic conditions …

This study examines the gender gap in start-up activities to determine whether it is family
status or employment status that is responsible for the observed gender gap. We consider …

We investigate the ability of small business borrowers to signal to investors their credit
worthiness through the use of text descriptions in the peer‐to‐peer lending market …

In this paper, we examine how government policy affects the sorting of industries across
jurisdictions using the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program. When estimating the …

Does entrepreneurship cause local employment and wage growth, and if so, how large is
the impact? Empirical analysis of such a question is difficult because of the joint …

Universal licensing recognition (ULR) is a recent policy trend in which states recognize other
states' licensing credentials, lowering labor market barriers for interstate migrants. Using …

This article proposes a simple and parsimonious theoretical framework that generates
predictions about the impacts of several prominent public policies on entrepreneurial entry …

The existing literature studying the relationship between small business activity and US state
tax policy has focused primarily on a few measures of small business. We expand this …

The present paper explores the link between bankruptcy law and firms' dynamics, focusing
on Italy as a case study. Relying on a previous literature dealing with the concept of …