Entry and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms (Hardcover)

1. Introduction 2. The Birth of New Business Enterprises 3. Determinants of New-Firm Start-Ups in Italy 4. Start-Up Size and Industrial Dynamics 5. The Relationship betwen Size and Growth 6. Does Gibrat's Law Hold Among Young Small Firms? 7. Is Subsidizing Entry an Optimal Policy? 8. The Link between Entry Decision and Post-Entry Performance 9. The Role of Innovation in the Post-Entry Performance of New Small Firms 10. Are all the Potential Entrepreneurs so Good? 11. Conclusions