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Metcalfe, Robert D.; Sollaci, Alexandre B.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it is managers themselves or firm-wide management practices that matter. We shed light on this question by...

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Selfish Corporations

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Gormsen, Niels; McQuade, Timothy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Motivated by the public debate regarding corporate responsibility, we construct a memory-based model of decision-making to illustrate how corporate and political communication can impact policy preferences. We test the predictions of our model in a new large-scale survey of U.S. citizens on...

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Cultural Stereotypes of Multinational Banks

Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using hand-collected data spanning more than a decade on European banks' sovereign debt portfolios, we show that the trust of residents of a bank's countries of operation in the residents of a potential target country of investment has a positive, statistically significant, and economically...

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The Big Three and Board Gender Diversity : The Effectiveness of Shareholder Voice

Gormley, Todd A.; Gupta, Vishal K.; Matsa, David A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards. We estimate that their campaigns led American corporations to add at least 2.5 times as many female directors in 2019 as they had in 2016. Firms increased diversity by...

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Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World

Lerner, Joshua; Liu, Junxi; Moscona, Jacob; Yang, David Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries … the dramatic growth of high-potential entrepreneurship and venture capital in China. First, using comprehensive data on … global venture activities, we show that as the Chinese venture industry rose in importance, entrepreneurship increased …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …

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Racial Protests and Credit Access

Garcia, Raffi E.; Ortega, Alberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine the impact of local racial demonstrations, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and the subsequent racial justice movement following the death of George Floyd on racial disparities in Paycheck Protection Program loan disbursements to small businesses. Using...

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Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Starbucks Cafés

Choi, Jinkyong; Guzman, Jorge; Small, Mario Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

into U.S. neighborhoods with no coffee shops increased entrepreneurship. We find that, when compared to census tracts that …

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Do Entrepreneurs Want Control? And Should They Get What They Want? A Historical and Theoretical Exploration

Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

From Elihu Thomson and Herbert Dow in the late nineteenth century to Steve Jobs a hundred years later, many entrepreneurs have been stymied by their investors. In this paper, we use a simple model to explore how outcomes might have been different if entrepreneurs, instead of the investors, had...

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Race and Gender in Entrepreneurial Finance

Ewens, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …

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