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Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Chatterji, Aaron; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United … identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969371
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Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing
Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950745
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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs. …/informal sector. These new establishments were concentrated in industries where women entrepreneurs have been traditionally active and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950817
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Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325523
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Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Firm Entry Size
Kerr, William; Nanda, Ramana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008601677
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The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis
Lerner, Josh; Schoar, Antoinette; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628350
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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We … entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find evidence of agglomeration economies in both sectors, where higher female … ownership among incumbent businesses within a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371806
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Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Strange, William C.; Rosenthal, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment … influences the choices of entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial success influences the local economy. Yet modern urban economics has … paid relatively little attention to entrepreneurs. This essay introduces a special issue of Journal of Urban Economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548809
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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets
Hellmann, Thomas; Perotti, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919712
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The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures
Hellmann, Thomas; Wasserman, Noam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919716