longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … management practices on productivity in German manufacturing …Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of …

Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than … novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001 … entrepreneurs that hold a portfolio of overlapping ongoing firms perform the best, as do those that open as limited liability firm …

We investigate the relation between management ownership and corporate performance, as measured by Tobin's Q. In a …

occurred in Finland in the early 1990s. We find that the sharp drop in real GDP over the period 1990-93 was driven by a … combination of a drop in total factor productivity (TFP) during 1990-92 and of increases in taxes on labor and consumption and … increases in government consumption during 1989-94, which drove down hours worked in Finland. We attempt to endogenize the drop …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …

discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich … administrative data, we find that relaxing the social insurance mandate leads entrepreneurs to significantly reduce their … is binding and its efficiency cost is heterogeneous …

on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on …We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … differentiates between entrepreneurs and other self-employed to address puzzling gaps that have emerged between theory and evidence …