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Entrepreneurial Risk and Market Entry

This paper attempts to reconcile the risk-bearing characterization of entrepreneurs with the stylized fact that entrepreneurs exhibit conventional risk aversion profiles. The authors propose that the disparity arises from confounding two distinct dimensions of uncertainty: demand uncertainty and ability uncertainty