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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development

Karlan, Dean S. - 2014

inputs to microenterprises, specifically financial capital (a cash grant) and managerial capital (consulting services), to …

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The Granular Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations

Gabaix, Xavier - 2009

This paper proposes that idiosyncratic firm-level fluctuations can explain an important part of aggregate shocks, and provide a microfoundation for aggregate productivity shocks. Existing research has focused on using aggregate shocks to explain business cycles, arguing that individual firm...

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University-Industry Spillovers, Government Funding, and Industrial Consulting

Jensen, Richard A. - 2015

This paper presents a theoretical model of faculty consulting in the context of government and industry funding for … research within the university, which then frames an empirical analysis of the funding and consulting of 458 individual faculty … consulting, independent of faculty quality. We find that government and industry funding for university research are strategic …

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Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship

Keuschnigg, Christian - 2006

The paper studies the effects of tax policy on venture capital activity. Entrepreneurs pursue a single high risk project each but have no own resources. Financiers provide equity finance. They must structure the entrepreneur's profit share and base salary to assure their incentives for full...

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Cashier or Consultant? Entry Labor Market Conditions, Field of Study, and Career Success

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2014

We analyze the early labor market outcomes of U.S. college graduates from the classes of 1974 to 2011, as a function of the economic conditions into which they graduated. We have three main findings. First, poor labor market conditions substantially disrupt early careers. A large recession at...

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Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare

Bloom, Nicholas - 2017

We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have...

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Does Input Quality Drive Measured Differences in Firm Productivity?

Fox, Jeremy T. - 2011

Firms in the same industry can differ in measured productivity by multiples of 3. Griliches (1957) suggests one explanation: the quality of inputs differs across firms. We add labor market history variables such as experience and firm and industry tenure, as well as general human capital...

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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?

Harrison, Ann E. - 2011

The new trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms ("stealing") in driving productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). We use comprehensive, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector...

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Production Chains

Levine, David K. - 2010

More advanced technologies demand higher degrees of specialization - and longer chains of production connecting raw inputs to final outputs. Longer production chains are subject to a "weakest link" effect: they are more fragile and more prone to failure. Optimal chain length is determined by the...

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The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism : Productivity, Asset Allocation, and Labor Outcomes

Brav, Alon - 2011

This paper studies the long-term effect of hedge fund activism on the productivity of target firms using plant-level information from the U.S. Census Bureau. A typical target firm improves its production efficiency in the three years after an activist intervention, and the improvements are most...

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