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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics: Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects
Kueng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
What determines firm growth over the life-cycle? Exploiting unique firm panel data on internal organization, balance sheets and innovation, representative of the entire Canadian economy, we study recent theories that examine life-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include...
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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...
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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 influences the choices of entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial success influences the local economy. Yet modern urban economics has paid relatively little attention to entrepreneurs. This...
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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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Brand Management and Strategies Against Counterfeits
Qian, Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In this paper I provide a theory for brand-protection strategies to reduce counterfeiting under weak intellectual property rights. My theoretical framework has general implications for endogenous sunk cost investments as a means of deterring counterfeiters. My model incorporates two layers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493267
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Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector
Chandra, Amitabh; Syverson, Chad; Finkelstein, Amy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The conventional wisdom in health economics is that large differences in average productivity across hospitals are the …, however, we find that productivity dispersion in heart attack treatment across hospitals is, if anything, smaller than in … productivity today is associated with about 4 percent more patients in 5 years. Taken together, these facts suggest that the …
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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms
Yang, Mu-Jeung; Kueng, Lorenz; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Business strategy can be defined as a firm's plan to generate economic profits based on lower cost, better quality, or new products. The analysis of business strategy is thus at the intersection of market competition and a firm's efforts to secure persistently superior performance via...
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Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity
Davis, Steven; Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
firms and reductions in earnings per worker. Productivity gains arise mainly from an accelerated exit of less productive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095622
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Do Credit Market Shocks affect the Real Economy? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Great Recession and ‘Normal’ Economic Times
Greenstone, Michael; Mas, Alexandre; Nguyen, Hoai-Luu - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We estimate the effect of the reduction in credit supply that followed the 2008 financial crisis on the real economy. We predict county lending shocks using variation in pre-crisis bank market shares and estimated bank supply-shifts. Counties with negative predicted shocks experienced declines...
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Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Chatterji, Aaron; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the...
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