Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34873 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3525
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur, the effects on survival are not as straightforward. Psychological research posits an inverse U-shaped relationship between risk attitudes and entrepreneurial survival. On the basis of recent waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we examine the extent to which risk attitudes influence survival rates of entrepreneurs. The empirical results confirm that persons whose risk attitudes are in the medium range survive significantly longer as entrepreneurs than do persons with particularly low or high risks.
Subjects: 
Entrepreneurship
risk attitudes
survival and failure
JEL: 
D81
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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