Start-up financing, owner characteristics, and survival

By Tom Åstebro, I. Bernhardt. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Are You Experienced? Prior Experience and the Survival of New Organizations (2007, methodology): “After identifying entrants, we use a method similar to that applied by Åstebro and Bernhardt (2003) defining them as survivors if they are still in existence after 5 years, or if another firm has acquired the start-up plant in this period, it is assigned as a takeover.”
Fear of failure as a mediator of the relationship between obstacles and nascent entrepreneurial activity—An experimental approach ☆ (2017, background): “Conversely, the availability of financial assets is significantly associated with the chances of survival of start-up firms (Åstebro and Bernhardt, 2003; Davila et al., 2003).”
Funding Gaps? Access To Bank Loans By High-Tech Start-Ups (2007, background): “11 For instance, Åstebro and Bernhardt (2003) show that failure rates of U.S. start-ups are higher for firms that did not obtain any bank loans at start-up time.”
Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance (2004, unknown): “In general it will therefore possess greater information content than dummy variables (used by, e.g., Astebro and Bernhardt, 2003) that indicate whether an entrepreneur believes herself to be credit constrained.”
The Winner’s Curse of Human Capital (2005, background): “Firms starting de novo are more likely to fail ( Astebro and Bernhardt, 2003 ).”
Does Founders' Human Capital Matter for Innovation? Evidence from Japanese Start‐ups (2015, methodology): “In fact, a large number of studies have addressed the effects of financial constraints on the level of capital used at start-up (Åstebro and Bernhardt 2005; Evans and Jovanovic 1989). Perhaps, the information asymmetries are more severe for R&Doriented start-ups because it is quite difficult to gaug”