Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of en- trepreneurs at all levels of the performance … suggest that an often overlooked factor – individual entrepreneurs – plays a large role in affecting firm performance. JEL …