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Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses : Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes
Davis, Steven J. - 2014
We develop a preliminary version of an Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (ILBD) that combines administrative records and survey data for all employer and nonemployer business units in the United States. Unlike other large-scale business databases, the ILBD tracks business transitions...
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Job Creation, Small vs. Large vs. Young, and the Sba
Brown, J. David - 2015
Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression methods to estimate the variation in SBA loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm...
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The Slow Growth of New Plants : Learning About Demand?
Foster, Lucia - 2014
It is well known that new businesses are typically much smaller than their established industry competitors, and that this size gap closes slowly. We show that even in commodity-like product markets, these patterns do not reflect productivity gaps, but rather differences in demand-side...
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Capital Market Financing, Firm Growth, Firm Size Distribution
Didier, Tatiana - 2014
Which firms issue equity and debt in domestic and international markets and what happens to their assets, sales, and number of employees? To answer these questions, we assemble a new dataset on firm-level capital raising activity during 1991-2011, which we match with firm attributes for 45,527...
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Exporter Dynamics, Firm Size and Growth, and Partial Year Effects
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2014
Two otherwise identical firms that enter the same market in different months, one in January and one in December, will report dramatically different annual sales for the first calendar year of operations. This partial year effect in annual data leads to downward biased observations of the level...
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Firm Size Dynamics in the Aggregate Economy
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Wright, Mark L. J. - 2021
Why do firm growth and exit rates decline with size? What determines the size distribution of firms? This paper presents a theory of firm dynamics that simultaneously rationalizes the basic facts on firm growth, exit, and size distributions. The theory emphasizes the accumulation of industry...
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The Firm as a Dedicated Hierarchy : A Theory of the Origin and Growth of Firms
Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi - 2021
A fundamental problem entrepreneurs face in the formative stages of their businesses is how to provide incentives for employees to protect, rather than steal, the source of organizational rents. We study how the entrepreneur's response to this problem will determine the organization's internal...
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The Relationship between Firm Size and Firm Growth in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2022
employment over time and find that most of the change inemployment in any given year is permanent in the sense that there is …
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Size and Growth of Japanese Plants in the United States
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Tomlin, Kasaundra - 2021
Using a unique database on all Japanese manufacturing plants in the United States, we examine the relationship between plant size and growth for these foreign-owned plants. These plants average sizes are three times larger than comparable U.S. plants and experienced 30 percent growth from 1987...
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Where Has All the Skewness Gone? The Decline in High-Growth (Young) Firms in the U.S
Decker, Ryan - 2016
employment growth rate distribution grew about 31 percent faster than the median firm. Moreover, the 90-50 differential was 16 … percent larger than the 50-10 differential reflecting the positive skewness of the employment growth rate distribution. We … show that the shape of the firm employment growth distribution changes substantially in the post-2000 period. By 2007, the …
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