Arbeitspapier

The impact of risk attitudes on entrepreneurial survival

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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3525

Classification
Wirtschaft
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Subject
Entrepreneurship
risk attitudes
survival and failure
Unternehmer
Risikopräferenz
Unternehmensgründung
Unternehmensentwicklung
Deutschland

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Caliendo, Marco
Fossen, Frank M.
Kritikos, Alexander S.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2008

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-20080605202
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Caliendo, Marco
  • Fossen, Frank M.
  • Kritikos, Alexander S.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2008

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