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LSE Business Review:

Creditors use startups' choice of legal form as a signal for debt financing

Formal debt financing is an important source of external financing for startups, but creditors face information gaps, as startups lack a proven track record. Felix Bracht, Jeroen Mahieu and Steven Vanhaverbeke argue that...Read more...

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Economy Policy:

Dennis Novy discussion of: Startups and employment

New firms, or startups, come into being all the time. Their lives are precarious at the beginning: many firms close down after a short while, and only few firms have a long-run future. Among those that survive, a small m...Read more...

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper

Culturally Clustered or in the Cloud? Location of Internet Start-ups in Berlin

Knowledge based firms like IT companies do neither have a capital- nor a land intensive production. They predominantly rely on qualified labour and increasingly depend on the location of its (potential) employees. This i...Read more...

CEP election analysis

Life Opportunities: The Evidence on the UK?s Declining Social Mobility

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

When You Are Born Matters: The Imapct of Date of Birth on Child Cognitive Outcomes in England

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CEP discussion paper

Company Start-Up Costs and Employment

I study the role of company start-up costs for employment performance. The model is search equilibrium with a new concept for firms. Agents have an innate managerial ability and make a career choice to become either mana...Read more...