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The Life Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico
Klenow, Peter J. - 2014
In the U.S., the average 40 year old plant employs almost eight times as many workers as the typical plant five years or younger. In contrast, surviving Indian plants exhibit little growth in terms of either employment or output. Mexico is intermediate to India and the U.S. in these respects:...
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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
Criscuolo, Chiara - 2014
positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective …
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Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?
Allcott, Hunt - 2014
negative externalities and save money. This overview paper presents a simple model of investment in energy-using capital stock … profitable unexploited investment opportunities is much smaller than engineering-accounting studies suggest. Finally, there is …
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A Survey of Venture Capital Research
Da Rin, Marco - 2014
examines the work on venture capital investments in companies, looking at issues of selection, contracting, post-investment …
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Comparing the Investment Behavior of Public and Private Firms
Asker, John - 2014
We evaluate differences in investment behavior between stock market listed and privately held firms in the U.S. using a … rich new data source on private firms. Listed firms invest less and are less responsive to changes in investment … firms, how we measure investment opportunities, lifecycle differences, or our matching criteria. We suggest that the …
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Land-Price Dynamics and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Liu, Zheng - 2014
We argue that positive co-movements between land prices and business investment are a driving force behind the broad … joint dynamics of land prices and business investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068043
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The Geography of Crowdfunding
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2014
Perhaps the most striking feature of "crowdfunding" is the broad geographic dispersion of investors in small, early-stage projects. This contrasts with existing theories that predict entrepreneurs and investors will be co-located due to distance-sensitive costs. We examine a crowdfunding setting...
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Financial Frictions and the Persistence of History : A Quantitative Exploration
Buera, Francisco J. - 2014
neoclassical growth model. Investment rates and total factor productivity start out low and rise over time. These model dynamics …
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The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance : A Regression Discontinuity Analysis
Kerr, William - 2014
This paper documents the role of angel funding for the growth, survival, and access to follow-on funding of high-growth start-up firms. We use a regression discontinuity approach to control for unobserved heterogeneity between firms that obtain funding and those that do not. This technique...
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Investment in Energy Infrastructure and the Tax Code
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2014
Federal tax policy provides a broad array of incentives for energy investment. I review those policies and construct … across investment classes. I then consider investment in wind generation capital and regress investment against a user cost … of capital measure along with other controls. I find that wind investment is strongly responsive to changes in tax policy …
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