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Credit Supply Shocks and Firm Dynamics : Evidence from Brazil
Bazzi, Samuel; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Oliveira, Raquel F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We explore how financial constraints distort the entry decisions among otherwise productive entrepreneurs and limit growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit constraints can induce more entry of firms with greater long-run...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda
Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …
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Partisan Entrepreneurship
Engelberg, Joseph; Guzman, Jorge; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, we find that 6% of Republicans and 4% of Democrats become entrepreneurs. This partisan entrepreneurship gap is time …-varying: Republicans increase their relative entrepreneurship during Republican administrations and decrease it during Democratic … entrepreneurship around the elections of President Obama and President Trump, and the strongest effects among the most politically …
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The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity
Aghion, Philippe - 2006
How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that there is heterogeneity across industries--incumbents in technologically advanced industries react positively to foreign firm entry, but not in laggard industries. To explain this...
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"Success Taxes," Entrepreneurial Entry, and Innovation
Gentry, William M. - 2004
entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households …
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Entrepreneurial Taxation with Endogenous Entry
Scheuer, Florian - 2013
This paper analyzes Pareto optimal non-linear taxation of profits and labor income in a private information economy with endogenous firm formation. Individuals differ in both their skill and their cost of setting up a firm, and choose between becoming workers and entrepreneurs. I show that a tax...
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(Co-)Working in Close Proximity : Knowledge Spillovers and Social Interactions
Roche, Maria P.; Oettl, Alexander; Catalini, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the influence of physical proximity on between-startup knowledge spillovers at one of the largest technology co-working hubs in the United States. Relying on the random assignment of office space to the hub's 251 startups, we find that proximity positively influences knowledge...
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Funding Black High-Growth Startups
Cook, Lisa D.; Marx, Matt; Yimfor, Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze determinants of access to venture capital for Black founders of high-growth startups. We combine image- and name-processing algorithms with clerical review to identify race for over 100,000 startup founders "at risk" for venture funding. Black founders raise roughly one-third as much...
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The Effect of Immigration Policy on Founding Location Choice : Evidence from Canada's Start-up Visa Program
Lee, Saerom; Glennon, Britta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies …
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Of Academics and Creative Destruction : Startup Advantage in the Process of Innovation
Kolev, Julian; Haughey, Alexis; Murray, Fiona E. S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of commercializing research from top U.S. universities; however, prior work has little to say on the particular advantages of startup ventures in the innovation process relative to more...
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