Can publicly available, web-scraped data be used to identify promising business startups at an early stage? To answer … predictive power remains poor. Our second key finding is that the data requirements for predicting performance outcomes with such … of (i) information derived from the names of the startups, (ii) data on elementary founder-related characteristics and …

finance. It is part of the 2017-18 Programme of Work and Budget of the Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (WPSMEE). …

on actual competition and contract outcomes are ambiguous. We pool a decade of US federal procurement data to shed light … on this empirical question using a two-stage approach. To circumvent the lack of exogenous variation in our data, as a … these effects. In a subset of our data we leverage an expected spike in set-aside spending and we find no evidence of better …