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entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households …
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How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that there is heterogeneity across industries--incumbents in technologically advanced industries react positively to foreign firm entry, but not in laggard industries. To explain this...
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We examine whether the introduction of a patent commons, a special type of royalty free patent pool available to the open source software (OSS) community influences new OSS product entry by start-up software firms. In particular, we analyze the impact of The Commons--established by the Open...
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Recent work highlights a falling entry rate of new firms and a rising market share of large firms in the United States. To understand how these changing firm demographics have affected growth, we decompose productivity growth into the firms doing the innovating. We trace how much each firm...
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soliciting the current client in the event of termination of employment. The socially optimal level of entrepreneurship will … are too restrictive and produce too little entrepreneurship, and governments can increase welfare by limiting enforcement …
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an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …
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Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …
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We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or …
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aversion, higher initial assets, preferences for entrepreneurship over employment, and optimistic beliefs about the payoffs …
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a start-up, or the inventor's effort cost in development is lower in a start-up. We test the theory using data from the … with the predictions of our theory …
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