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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014

Guzman, Jorge - 2016

entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …

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Connecting to Power : Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018

Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their workers to answer this question. Our analysis uses a brand-new dataset, spanning the period from 1993 to 2014, where we merge: (i) firm-level balance sheet data; (ii) social...

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Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Azoulay, Pierre - 2018

Many observers, and many investors, believe that young people are especially likely to produce the most successful new firms. We use administrative data at the U.S. Census Bureau to study the ages of founders of growth-oriented start-ups in the past decade. Our primary finding is that successful...

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Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation : Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2016

Managerial delegation is essential for firm growth. While firms in poor countries often shun outside managers and instead recruit among family members, the pattern is quite the opposite for firms in rich countries. In this paper, we ask whether these differences in managerial delegation have...

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From Population Growth to Firm Demographics : Implications for Concentration, Entrepreneurship and the Labor Share

Hopenhayn, Hugo - 2018

The US economy has undergone a number of puzzling changes in recent decades. Large firms now account for a greater share of economic activity, new firms are being created at a slower rate, and workers are getting paid a smaller share of GDP. This paper shows that changes in population growth...

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Competence in Health Care - An Industrial Systems Analysis Using Competence Bloc Theory to Compare European and US Health Care

Eliasson, Gunnar; Eliasson, Åsa - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

), discouraging innovative product competition and entrepreneurship. The larger part of cost escalation in US health care can be …

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Firm Growth, Institutions and Structural Transformation

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

This essay argues that the economic contribution of certain firms – be they small, young or rapidly growing – has to be understood in a broader context of creative destruction. Growth of some firms requires contraction and exit of some other firms to free up resources that can be reallocated...

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Entrepreneurship and Growth

Mueller, Dennis C. - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

In the year 2000 at a meeting in Lisbon, leaders of the European Union (EU) articulated a set of goals for the Union, which have come to be called the Lisbon Strategy or Lisbon Agenda. The agenda had three main goals: to promote growth through innovation, to create a learning economy, and to...

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