The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A ( and not Z ) by C . Mirjam van Praag

The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)

The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z) Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more often than Professor Z, will have published mo...

16 Economics of Entrepreneurship : A personal story on the joy of research Mirjam van Praag inDepth

Initial Capital Constraints hinder Entrepreneurial

This paper investigates empirically whether and to what extent initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial performance once the venture has been started. As discussed in the paper, prior empirical research in this area could investigate this issue only indirectly by lack of data and adequate empirical identification strategies. The key contribution of this paper is that – due to our comp...

Gerrit de Wit June 2000 Determinants of Successful Entrepreneurship SCALES

Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international business program in the Netherla...