Managers of retail chains who seek to add new stores or close existing ones need to know the net impact of a store's opening/closure on the overall chain performance. This requires inferring the extent to which each store generates incremental sales as opposed to competing with other stores...

Entrepreneurs, even more than employees, tend to locate in regions in which they have deep roots ("home" regions). Here, we examine the performance implications of these choices. Whereas one might expect entrepreneurs to perform better in these regions because of their richer endowments of...

We formalize the idea that when managers require external investment to expand, higher-skilled firms will be more likely to diversify in equilibrium, even though managers can exploit asymmetric information about their ability to raise capital from investors. We exploit the timing of new fund...

What is the link between taxes and manufacturing wages?

Does price competition exist in the mutual fund industry? If so, is it too weak to prevent anticompetitive pricing by investment advisors to retail investors?

This working paper finds no evidence that the SBA loan guarantees serve any focused or rigorously defined public policy purpose at all.

Despite the frequency of tax changes and their potential importance to investors, there has been relatively little modeling of anticipated tax changes.

How are factors such as corruption perception and the level of democracy influencing foreign direct investment to developing economies?