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When Does Funding Research by Smaller Firms Bear Fruit? : Evidence from the SBIR Program

Gans, Joshua S. - 2000

This paper evaluates whether the relative concentration of funding for small, research-oriented firms in a small number of high-tech industries is related to the differences across industries in the level of appropriability or capital constraints facing small firms. To do so, we exploit a novel...

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The Government as Venture Capitalist : The Long-Run Effects of the SBIR Program

Lerner, Josh - 1996

Public programs to provide early-stage financing to firms, particularly high-technology companies, have become commonplace in the United States and abroad. The long-run effectiveness of these programs, however, has attracted little empirical scrutiny. This paper examines the impact of the...

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Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms : Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program

Link, Albert N. - 2012

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of entrepreneurial firms. We fill this gap by examining a rich...

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Sources of Funds and Investment Activities of Venture Capital Funds : Evidence from Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK

Mayer, Colin - 2003

We compare sources of funds and investment activities of venture capital (VC) funds in Germany, Israel, Japan and the … particularly important in Germany, corporations in Israel, insurance companies in Japan, and pension funds in the UK. VC investment … countries; for example, bank backed VC funds in Germany and Japan are as involved in early stage finance as other funds in these …

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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nick - 2006

US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …

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Private or Public Equity? The Evolving Entrepreneurial Finance Landscape

Ewens, Michael; Farre-Mensa, Joan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The U.S. entrepreneurial finance market has changed dramatically over the last two decades. Entrepreneurs raising their first round of venture capital retain 30% more equity in their firm and are more likely to control their board of directors. Late-stage startups are raising larger amounts of...

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Racial Disparities in Access to Small Business Credit : Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program

Howell, Sabrina T.; Kuchler, Theresa; Snitkof, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We explore the sources of racial disparities in small business lending by studying the $806 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was designed to support small business jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. PPP loans were administered by private lenders but federally guaranteed, largely...

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Large Banks and Small Firm Lending

Bord, Vitaly M. - 2018

We show that since 2007, there was a large and persistent shift in the composition of lenders to small firms. Large banks impacted by the real estate prices collapse systematically contracted their credit to all small firms throughout the U.S.. However, healthy banks expanded their operations...

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Bank Size and Lending Relationships in Japan

Uchida, Hirofumi - 2007

Current theoretical and empirical research suggests that small banks have a comparative advantage in processing soft information and delivering relationship lending. The most comprehensive analysis of this view found using U.S. data that smaller SMEs borrow from smaller banks and smaller banks...

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Historical Financing of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Cull, Robert - 2005

We focus on the economies of the North Atlantic Core during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and find that an impressive variety of local financial institutions emerged to supply the needs of SMEs wherever there was sufficient demand for their services. Although these intermediaries...

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