, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …

-run impacts on experimental bank account use and almost entirely driven by growth in entrepreneurship. Temporary interest rates … directed to joint bank accounts had no detectable long-run impacts on entrepreneurship or income, but increased investment in …

Group lending has been widely adopted in the past thirty years by many microfinance institutions as a means to mitigate …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that … threat spurs innovation incentives in sectors close to the technological frontier--successful innovation allows incumbents to … prevent entry. In laggard sectors it discourages innovation--increased entry threat reduces incumbents' expected rents from …

Interest in the role of entrepreneurial entry in innovation raises the question of the extent to which tax policy … entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households … innovative entrepreneurs confounds interpreting this specification. Using education as a measure of potential for innovation, we …