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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chay, Kenneth; Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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Serial Entrepreneurship: Learning by Doing?

Lafontaine, Francine; Shaw, Kathryn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 … questions using a comprehensive and unique data set on all establishments started at any time between 1990 and 2011 to sell ….3 million retail businesses of small owners of new businesses in our data, only 25 percent are started by owners who have …

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Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Firm Entry Size

Kerr, William; Nanda, Ramana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US …

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Slack Time and Innovation

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Goldfarb, Avi; Catalini, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

The extant literature linking slack time to innovation focuses on how slack time facilitates creative activities such as ideation, experimentation, and prototype development. We turn attention to how slack time may enable activities that are less creative but still important for innovation,...

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Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment

Fafchamps, Marcel; Quinn, Simon R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We run a novel field experiment to link managers of African manufacturing firms. The experiment features exogenous link formation, exogenous seeding of information, and exogenous assignment to treatment and placebo. We study the impact of the experiment on firm business practices outside of the...

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Friends or Foes: The Interrelationship between Angel and Venture Capital Markets

Hellmann, Thomas; Thiele, Veikko - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper develops a theory of how angel and venture capital markets interact. Entrepreneurs first receive angel then venture capital funding. The two investor types are 'friends' in that they rely upon each other's investments. However, they are also 'foes', because at the later stage the...

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Entrepreneurship and Financial Frictions: A Macro-Development Perspective

Kaboski, Joseph P.; Buera, Francisco J.; Shin, Yongseok - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We review both the theoretical and empirical literature on entrepreneurship and financial frictions, with an emphasis …

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The Capital Structure Decisions of New Firms

Robinson, David T.; Robb, Alicia M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

restricted-access data from the Kauffman Firm Survey. Contrary to many accounts of startup activity, the firms in our data rely …

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Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Strange, William C.; Rosenthal, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment … dedicated to the geography of entrepreneurship. The paper frames the core questions facing researchers interested in assessing … the local causes and consequences of entrepreneurship, perturbs a core urban model to incorporate entrepreneurship, and …

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From Farming to International Business: The Social Auspices of Entrepreneurship in a Growing Economy

Munshi, Kaivan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Entrepreneurship has been traditionally concentrated in the hands of a few small communities in most developing … significant barriers to entry. Using new firm-level data on the Indian diamond industry, the empirical analysis documents the …

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