created at firm formation and is inalienable from the founding team itself. To test this hypothesis, we exploit premature … deaths to identify the causal impact of losing a founding team member on startup performance. We find that the exogenous … separation of a founding team member due to premature death has a persistently large, negative, and statistically significant …

We examine whether underlying industry innovation dynamics are an important driver of the large dispersion in … productivity across firms within narrowly defined sectors. Our hypothesis is that periods of rapid innovation are accompanied by …

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity …

Innovation in the U.S. economy is about employing and rewarding highly talented workers to produce new products. Using … innovation, or high variance payoffs, are more likely to attract and pay for star workers. Thus, firms in high variance product …