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Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size

Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater...

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Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship

Nanda, Ramana - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique micro-data from Denmark to study how exogenous … changes in the cost of external finance shape both the probability of entering entrepreneurship and the characteristics of … wealth and entrepreneurship may be driven by the fact that wealthy individuals with lower ability can start new businesses …

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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William; Lincoln, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014

Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...

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Agglomeration and Innovation

Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities....

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Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William; Nanda, Ramana - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2006

We examine entrepreneurship and creative destruction following US banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. US … banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. The vast majority of closures …

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