The entrepreneurial earnings puzzle: Mismeasurement or real?

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 88-105

  Åstebro, Thomas ^a   Chen, Jing ^b  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Income underreporting; Returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887145042     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2013.04.003     Document Type: Article

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