Risk Taking by Entrepreneurs

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Underinvestment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh (2014, methodology): “The model is related to Deaton's buffer stock model, several models from the poverty trap literature (e.g. Banerjee 2004), and the entrepreneurship literature (e.g. Buera 2009; Vereshchagina and Hopenhayn 2009).”
The Firm Size Distribution Across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology (2018, background): “While in general, risk aversion is an important factor affecting entrepreneurial entry (see e.g. Kihlstrom and Laffont 1979, Vereshchagina and Hopenhayn 2009), the mechanism at the heart of this paper does not interact with it.”
Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed (2011, unknown): “On the one hand, some empirical evidence finds that personality variables play an important role in explaining entrepreneurial processes: Zhao and Seibert (2006), for example, show that the personality structure is an important component explaining new venture creation and entrepreneurial success.”
Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed (2013, unknown): “Besides the control variables, specification A includes the Big Five construct only; specification B contains all personality constructs allowing us to reveal—in line with the suggestion of Zhao and Seibert (2006)— the additional influence of specific personality characteristics given that we contro”