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potential long-run impact on individuals over decades and even generations. History, however, offers a solution. Historical …
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This paper replicates a classic study of the American business elite. The older study done a half-century ago, reported the composition of business leaders a century ago. I have" drawn a sample of business leaders today to discover how much the composition of the" American business elite has...
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’ contribution to entrepreneurial activity and employment creation in their host countries. In OECD countries, entrepreneurship is …, although the survival rate of these businesses is often lower than that of their native counterparts. Migrant entrepreneurship … migrant entrepreneurship is essential if policy makers are to better support migrant enterprises and their role in economic …
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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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Introduction / Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar -- International perspectives on the nature of entrepreneurship … -- Explaining international differences in entrepreneurship: the role of individual characteristics and regulatory constraints … Colombian case / Camilo Mondragón-Vélez and Ximena Peña -- Entrepreneurship and firm formation across countries / Leora Klapper …
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This paper presents new homogeneous series on top wealth shares from 1916 to 2000 in the United States using estate tax return data. Top wealth shares were very high at the beginning of the period but have been hit sharply by the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II shocks. Those...
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I discuss available evidence about the evolution of top wealth shares in the United States over the last one hundred years. The three main approaches - Survey of Consumer Finances, estate tax multiplier techniques and capitalization method - generate generally consistent findings until mid-1980s...
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We study the role of distance and time in statistically explaining price dispersion for 14 commodities from 1732 to 1860. The prices are reported for US cities and Swedish market towns, so we can compare international and intranational dispersion. Distance and commodity-specific fixed effects...
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