claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question … answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control …

external capital and have greater growth opportunities. Also, higher accountability and lower income inequality are associated …

Smart high-tech companies are characterized by knowledge intensity and open innovation. Even when these companies …

We analyze how the threat of a potential future regime shift affects optimal management. We use a simple general growth …

firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that are sufficiently consistent as to … relationships between firm age and size on the one hand, and survival and growth on the other may, in fact, not be the same in … services. The results suggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth are …

This paper puts forward a method to estimate average economic growth, and its associated confidence bounds, which does …

Growth in the Millennium</I>, 2005, Resources for the Future, Washington DC, 177-97.<P> …

There has been a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post … remarkable long-running panel data set for rural households in Zimbabwe. We find that risk substantially reduces growth: in the …, the first micro-based estimate of the effect of shocks on growth. About two-thirds of the impact of risk is due to the ex …