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Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance

Cai, Jing - 2016

We organized business associations for the owner-managers of randomly selected young Chinese firms to study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,800 firms into small groups whose managers held monthly meetings for one year, and into a "no- meetings" control group....

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Management Ownership and Corporate Performance : An Empirical Analysis

Morck, Randall - 1986

We investigate the relation between management ownership and corporate performance, as measured by Tobin's Q. In a cross-section of Fortune 500 firms, Tobin's Q first increases and then declines as board of directors holdings rise. For older firms there is weak evidence that Q is lower when a...

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Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers : 1984-2001

DiNardo, John - 2004

Economic impacts of unionization on employers are difficult to estimate in the absence of large, representative data on establishments with union status information. Estimates are also confounded by selection bias, because unions could organize at highly profitable enterprises that are more...

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Institutions, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Firm Dynamics : Evidence from Europe

Desai, Mihir - 2003

We explore the impact of the institutional environment on the nature of entrepreneurial activity across Europe. Political, legal, and regulatory variables that have been shown to impact capital market development influence entrepreneurial activity in the emerging markets of Europe, but not in...

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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014

Guzman, Jorge - 2016

entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …

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Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance

Guzman, Jorge - 2015

A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial … quality distribution. Second, we propose two new economic statistics for the measurement of entrepreneurship: the … Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI) and the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index (RECPI). We use these indices to offer a …

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Serial Entrepreneurship : Learning by Doing?

Lafontaine, Francine - 2014

in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 …

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Do Equity Financing Cycles Matter? Evidence from Biotechnology Alliances

Lerner, Josh - 2000

While the variability of public equity financing has been long recognized, its impact on firms has attracted little empirical scrutiny. This paper examines one setting where theory suggests that variations in financing conditions should matter, alliances between small R&D firms and major...

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The Self-Enforcing Provisions of Oil and Gas Unit Operating Agreements : Theory and Evidence

Libecap, Gary D. - 1999

This paper extends the existing theory and empirical investigation of unitization contracts. It highlights the importance of incentive-compatibility and self-enforcement and the bargaining problems faced in achieving viable, long-term contracts. We argue that only if the parties to a unitization...

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Syndicated Lending, Competition and Relative Performance Evaluation

Schneider, Thomas Ian; Strahan, Philip E.; Yang, Jun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Relative performance evaluation (RPE) intensifies competitive pressure by tying executive compensation to the profits of rivals. We show that these contracts make loan syndication harder by reducing banks' willingness to participate in loans underwritten by banks named in their RPE contracts....

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