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Working Papers

2020

1. Declining Business Dynamism Among Our Best Opportunities: The Role of the Burden of Knowledge
   Working Papers, HAL
   Also in ISER Discussion Paper, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University (2020)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020)
2. Herding in Equity Crowdfunding
   Working papers, Red Investigadores de Economía
   Also in HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris (2018) View citations (2)
3. The Impact of Overconfidence and Ambiguity Attitude on Market Entry
   Working Papers, HAL
   See also Journal Article in Organization Science (2020)

2018

4. On-line Appendix for 'Academic Entrepreneurship: Bayh-Dole versus the Professor’s Privilege'
   Working Papers, HAL

2017

5. Gross, Net, and New Job Creation by Entrepreneurs
   HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris View citations (2)
   Also in Working Papers, HAL (2017) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Business Venturing Insights (2017)

2016

6. Academic Entrepreneurship: Bayh-Dole versus the 'Professor's Privilege'
   HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris View citations (2)
   Also in Working Papers, HAL (2015)
7. Appendix: Invention Quality and Entrepreneurial Earnings: The Role of Prior Employment Variety
   Working Papers, HAL View citations (6)
   Also in HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris (2015)
8. Hierarchies and Entrepreneurship
   Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics View citations (9)
   See also Journal Article in European Economic Review (2016)
9. Invention Quality and Entrepreneurial Earnings: The Role of Prior Employment Variety
   Working Papers, HAL View citations (6)
   Also in HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris (2015)
10. Public Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship: A Call to Arms
    HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris View citations (77)
    Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2016) View citations (77)
    Working Papers, HAL (2016) View citations (51)
    See also Journal Article in Small Business Economics (2016)
11. The Effects of a Training Program to Encourage Social Entrepreneurship
    HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris View citations (2)
    Also in Working Papers, HAL (2016) View citations (2)

2015

12. Classification Models Via Tabu Search: An Application to Early Stage Venture Classification
    HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2014) View citations (1)
    Working Papers, HAL (2015)
13. Jobs Incorporated: Incorporation Status and Job Creation
    Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics View citations (3)
14. Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics
    HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2014) View citations (51)
    Working Papers, HAL (2015)
    Working Papers, HAL (2015)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Perspectives (2014)

2014

15. Detecting Heterogeneous Risk Attitudes with Mixed Gambles
    HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Theory and Decision (2015)
16. The entrepreneurial earnings puzzle: Mismeasurement or real?
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (56)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Business Venturing (2014)

2013

17. Does academic entrepreneurship pay?
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (9)
    Also in HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris (2012) View citations (1)
    Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies (2012) View citations (1)
    Working Papers, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum (2012) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Industrial and Corporate Change (2013)
18. The Economic Returns to Entrepreneurship – Implications for Stimulating Entrepreneurship
    Working Papers, HAL
    Also in HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris (2013)

2012

19. Business Partnerships and the Commercialization of Inventions
    Post-Print, HAL
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2011)
    Post-Print, HAL (2010)
20. More than a Dummy: The Probability of Failure, Survival and Acquisition of Private Firms in Financial Distress
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (6)
21. More than a dummy: The probability of failure, survival and acquisition of firms in financial distress
    Munich Reprints in Economics, University of Munich, Department of Economics View citations (15)
22. Risk Taking in Mixed Gambles
    Working Papers, HAL
23. Startups by recent university graduates and their faculty: Implications for university entrepreneurship policy
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (76)
    See also Journal Article in Research Policy (2012)
24. The Returns to Entrepreneurship
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)

2011

25. Business Partners, Financing, and the Commercialization of Inventions
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
26. Entrepreneurs, Jacks of all trades or Hobos?
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (74)
    See also Journal Article in Research Policy (2011)
27. Stars and Misfits: Self-Employment and Labor Market Frictions
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (51)
    Also in Working Papers, Florida International University, Department of Economics (2010) View citations (21)
    See also Journal Article in Management Science (2011)
28. Universities, Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development
    ERSA conference papers, European Regional Science Association View citations (14)
29. Universities, Entrepreneurship and Regional Local Development
    Post-Print, HAL

2010

30. Bound and Collapse Bayesian Reject Inference for Credit Scoring
    Working Papers, HAL
    See also Journal Article in Journal of the Operational Research Society (2012)
31. Entrepreneurs Seeking Gains: Profit Motives and Risk Aversion in Inventors' Commercialization Decisions
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2010)
32. Preferences for Skew
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (2)
    Also in Working Papers, HAL (2009) View citations (4)
    Post-Print, HAL (2009)
    Post-Print, HAL (2009)
    Post-Print, HAL (2009)
33. Stars and Misfits: A Theory of Occupational Choice
    Working Papers, HAL View citations (2)
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2008) View citations (1)
34. Startups by Recent University Graduates versus their Faculty - Implications for University Entrepreneurship Policy
    Working Papers, HAL
35. Student startups and local economic development
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2010) View citations (1)
    Post-Print, HAL (2010) View citations (1)
36. Teamwork and the Commercialization of Ideas
    Post-Print, HAL
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2009)
    Post-Print, HAL (2009)
    Post-Print, HAL (2010)
    Working Papers, HAL (2009)
37. Teamwork and the commercialization of inventions
    Post-Print, HAL

2009

38. Entrepreneurial Perseverance - The Role of Personality and Cognition in Determining Commercialization Efforts and Commercialization Success
    Working Papers, HAL
39. Entrepreneurs Seeking Gains: Rational Motives in the Commercialization Decisions of Inventors
    Post-Print, HAL
40. Preference for Skew in Lotteries: Evidence from the Laboratory
    Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie, Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie View citations (10)
    Also in MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany (2009) View citations (10)
41. Preference for skew in lotteries, gambling and entrepreneurship
    Post-Print, HAL
42. The Diffusion of Complementary Technologies: An Empirical Test
    Working Papers, HAL View citations (2)

2008

43. Entrepreneurship, Teamwork and the Commercialization of Ideas
    2008 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2008)
    Post-Print, HAL (2008)
    Post-Print, HAL (2008)

2007

44. Calibration Accuracy of a Judgmental Process that Predicts the Commercial Success of New Product Ideas
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (3)
45. Inventor Perseverance after Being Told to Quit: The Role of Cognitive Biases
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (25)

2006

46. The effectiveness of simple decision heuristics: Forecasting commercial success for early-stage ventures
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (18)
    See also Journal Article in Management Science (2006)

2005

47. Maximum Likelihood Approach to Reject Inference
    Post-Print, HAL
48. Opportunity knocks
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in Research Policy (2005)
49. Predictors of the Survival of Innovations
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (22)
50. The Winner's Curse of Human Capital
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (32)
    Also in Working Papers, U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies (1999) View citations (25)

2004

51. Key Success Factors for Technological Entrepreneurs' R&D Projects
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (9)
52. Sunk Costs and the Depth and Probability of Technology Adoption
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Industrial Economics (2004)

2003

53. Assessing the Commercial Viability of New Ventures
    Post-Print, HAL
54. How to Deal with Missing Categorical Data: Test of a Simple Bayesian Method
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (3)
55. Key Success Factors for the Commercialization of Early-Stage R&D Projects
    Post-Print, HAL
56. Mathematical Approaches to Credit Risk Management
    Post-Print, HAL
57. Start-up financing, owner characteristics, and survival
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (32)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economics and Business (2003)
58. The Return to Independent Invention: Evidence of Risk Seeking, Extreme Optimism or Skewness-Loving
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (11)

2002

59. Assessing Start-up Business Risk
    Post-Print, HAL
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2001)
60. Assessing the Commercial Viability of Seed- and Early-Stage Ventures
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
61. Economic Analysis of R&D Projects: Real Option versus NPV Valuation Revisited
    Post-Print, HAL
62. Noncapital Investment Costs and the Adoption of CAD and CNC in U.S. Metalworking Industries
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article in RAND Journal of Economics (2002)

2001

63. Business Failure Prediction: Application of Fuzzy Variable Coding
    Post-Print, HAL
64. Profitable Advice: The Value of Information Provided by Canada's Inventor's Assistance Program
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (2)
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (1999)
    See also Journal Article in Economics of Innovation and New Technology (2001)
65. The Economic Value of Reject Inference in Credit Scoring
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (2)

2000

66. Calculating the Expectation and Variance of the Present Value for a Random Profit Stream of Uncertain Duration
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)

1999

67. Bank Loans as Predictors of Small Business Start-Up Survival
    Working Papers, U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies View citations (1)
68. Self-Selection and Bank Loans: Screening of Entrepreneurial Ventures
    Post-Print, HAL
69. The Impact of Owner/Enterpreneurs Knowledge and Human Capital on the Survival of New Small Firms
    Post-Print, HAL
70. The Social Rate of Return to Canada's Inventor's Assistance Program
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (2)
71. The Statistical Accuracy of a Process to Evaluate, Ex Ante, the Ex Post Commercial Success of Inventions
    Post-Print, HAL

1998

72. Basic statistics on the success rate and profits for independent inventors
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (2)

1995

73. The Effect of Management and Social Interaction on the Intra-Firm Diffusion of Electronic Mail Systems
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (2)

1992

74. Computer Aided Design
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
75. The International Diffusion of Computer Aided Design
    Post-Print, HAL

Journal Articles

2020

1. The Impact of Overconfidence and Ambiguity Attitude on Market Entry
   Organization Science, 2020, 31, (2), 308-329
   See also Working Paper (2020)

2017

2. Gross, net, and new job creation by entrepreneurs
   Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2017, 8, (C), 64-70 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper (2017)
3. The private financial gains to entrepreneurship: Is it a good use of public money to encourage individuals to become entrepreneurs?
   Small Business Economics, 2017, 48, (2), 323-329 View citations (8)

2016

4. Decision biases and entrepreneurial finance
   Small Business Economics, 2016, 47, (4), 819-834 View citations (7)
5. Equity crowdfunding: A new phenomena
   Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2016, 5, (C), 37-49 View citations (62)
6. Hierarchies and entrepreneurship
   European Economic Review, 2016, 89, (C), 129-147 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper (2016)
7. Public policy to promote entrepreneurship: a call to arms
   Small Business Economics, 2016, 47, (1), 35-51 View citations (77)
   See also Working Paper (2016)

2015

8. Business Partners: Complementary Assets, Financing, and Invention Commercialization
   Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2015, 24, (2), 228-252 View citations (11)
9. Detecting heterogeneous risk attitudes with mixed gambles
   Theory and Decision, 2015, 79, (4), 573-600 View citations (8)
   See also Working Paper (2014)
10. Skewness seeking: risk loving, optimism or overweighting of small probabilities?
    Theory and Decision, 2015, 78, (2), 189-208 View citations (25)

2014

11. Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014, 28, (3), 49-70 View citations (56)
    See also Working Paper (2015)
12. The entrepreneurial earnings puzzle: Mismeasurement or real?
    Journal of Business Venturing, 2014, 29, (1), 88-105 View citations (58)
    See also Working Paper (2014)

2013

13. Does academic entrepreneurship pay?
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 2013, 22, (1), 281-311 View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper (2013)

2012

14. Bound and collapse Bayesian reject inference for credit scoring
    Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2012, 63, (10), 1374-1387 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper (2010)
15. Startups by recent university graduates and their faculty: Implications for university entrepreneurship policy
    Research Policy, 2012, 41, (4), 663-677 View citations (86)
    See also Working Paper (2012)

2011

16. Entrepreneurs, Jacks of all trades or Hobos?
    Research Policy, 2011, 40, (5), 637-649 View citations (93)
    See also Working Paper (2011)
17. Stars and Misfits: Self-Employment and Labor Market Frictions
    Management Science, 2011, 57, (11), 1999-2017 View citations (58)
    See also Working Paper (2011)

2010

18. Entrepreneurs Seeking Gains: Profit Motives and Risk Aversion in Inventors’ Commercialization Decisions
    Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2010, 19, (4), 863-888 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper (2010)

2006

19. The Effectiveness of Simple Decision Heuristics: Forecasting Commercial Success for Early-Stage Ventures
    Management Science, 2006, 52, (3), 395-409 View citations (22)
    See also Working Paper (2006)

2005

20. Opportunity knocks
    Research Policy, 2005, 34, (9), 1404-1418 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper (2005)

2004

21. Sunk Costs and the Depth and Probability of Technology Adoption
    Journal of Industrial Economics, 2004, 52, (3), 381-399 View citations (28)
    See also Working Paper (2004)

2003

22. Start-up financing, owner characteristics, and survival
    Journal of Economics and Business, 2003, 55, (4), 303-319 View citations (58)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
23. The Return to Independent Invention: Evidence of Unrealistic Optimism, Risk Seeking or Skewness Loving?
    Economic Journal, 2003, 113, (484), 226-239 View citations (33)

2002

24. Noncapital Investment Costs and the Adoption of CAD and CNC in U.S. Metalworking Industries
    RAND Journal of Economics, 2002, 33, (4), 672-688 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper (2002)

2001

25. Profitable Advice: the Value of Information Provided by Canada's Inventor's Assistance Program
    Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2001, 10, (1), 45-72 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper (2001)