International differences in entrepreneurship
By: edited by Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report; Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780226473093
Description: viii, 356 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  / Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar; title: International perspectives on the nature of entrepreneurship; title: Explaining international differences in entrepreneurship: the role of individual characteristics and regulatory constraints / Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi; title: Who are the microenterprise owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto / Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff; title: Business ownership and self-employment in developing economies: the Colombian case / Camilo Mondragón-Vélez and Ximena Peña; title: Entrepreneurship and firm formation across countries / Leora Klapper, Raphael Amit, and Mauro F. Guillén; title: Does less market entry regulation generate more entrepreneurs? Evidence from a regulatory reform in Peru / Sendhil Mullainathan and Philipp Schnabl; title: The international Asian business success story? A comparison of Chinese, Indian and other Asian businesses in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom / Robert W. Fairlie, Julie Zissimopoulos, and Harry Krashinsky; title: Are there cultural determinants of entrepreneurship? / Rajkamal Iyer and Antoinette Schoar; title: International perspectives on policies towards entrepreneurship; title: Entrepreneurship and credit constraints: evidence from a French loan guarantee program / Claire Lelarge, David Sraer and David Thesmar; title: Government sponsored versus private venture capital: Canadian evidence / James A. Brander, Edward J. Egan and Thomas F. Hellmann; title: Is entrepreneurship missing in Shanghai? / Yasheng Huang and Yi Qian.