Edited by Simon C. Parker, MBA ’80 Professor of Entrepreneurship, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada

'Simon Parker has brought together a definitive collection of publications showing us the contribution of rigorous economics to the wild field of entrepreneurship.'

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction Simon C Parker1. William J. Baumol (1968), ‘Entrepreneurship in Economic Theory’PART IDETERMINANTS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THEORY 2. Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (1978), ‘On the Size Distribution of Business Firms’3. Kevin M. Murphy, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1991), ‘The Allocation of Talent: Implications for Growth’4. Richard E. Kihlstrom and Jean-Jaques Laffont (1979), ‘A General Equilibrium Entrepreneurial Theory of Firm Formation Based on Risk Aversion’5. Simon C. Parker (1996), ‘A Time Series Model of Self-Employment Under Uncertainty’PART IIDETERMINANTS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: EVIDENCE 6. Hedley Rees and Anup Shah (1986), ‘An Empirical Analysis of Self-Employment in the UK’7. David M. Blau (1987), ‘A Time-Series Analysis of Self-Employment in the United States’8. David S. Evans and Linda S. Leighton (1989), ‘Some Empirical Aspects of Entrepreneurship’9. David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald (1998), ‘What Makes an Entrepreneur?’PART IIIMINORITY AND FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP 10. Robert W. Fairlie and Bruce D. Meyer (1996), ‘Ethnic and Racial Self-Employment: Differences and Possible Explanations’11. George J. Borjas and Stephen G. Bronars (1989), ‘Consumer Discrimination and Self-Employment’12. Theresa J. Devine (1994), ‘Characteristics of Self-Employed Women in the United States’13. George J. Borjas (1986), ‘The Self-Employment Experience of Immigrants’PART IVENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE: THEORY 14. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Weiss (1981), ‘Credit Rationing in Markets with Imperfect Information’15. David de Meza and David C. Webb (1987), ‘Too Much Investment: A Problem of Asymmetric Information’PART VENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 16. David S. Evans and Boyan Jovanovic (1989), ‘An Estimated Model of Entrepreneurial Choice Under Liquidity Constraints’17. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, David Joulfaian and Harvey S. Rosen (1994), ‘Entrepreneurial Decisions and Liquidity Constraints’18. Thomas Lindh and Henry Ohlsson (1996), ‘Self-Employment and Windfall Gains: Evidence From the Swedish Lottery’PART VIGROWTH, INNOVATION, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 19. David S. Evans (1987), ‘The Relationship Between Firm Growth, Size and Age: Estimates for 100 Manufacturing Industries’20. Boyan Jovanovic (1982), ‘Selection and the Evolution of Industry’21. Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch (1989), ‘Small-firm Entry in US Manufacturing’22. Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch (1988), ‘Innovation in Large and Small Firms: An Empirical Analysis’23. Steven Klepper (1996), ‘Entry, Exit, Growth, and Innovation over the Product Life Cycle’PART VIISURVIVAL IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP 24. Timothy Bates (1990), ‘Entrepreneur Human Capital Inputs and Small Business Longevity’25. Robert Cressy (1996), ‘Are Business Startups Debt-Rationed?’26. Thomas J. Holmes and James A. Schmitz, Jr. (1990), ‘A Theory of Entrepreneurship and its Application to the Study of Business Transfers’Name Index