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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014
Guzman, Jorge - 2016
entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456579
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Fire in the Belly? Employee Motives and Innovative Performance in Startups versus Established Firms
Sauermann, Henry - 2017
concerned with the supply of human capital to entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455582
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The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity
Aghion, Philippe - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466642
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"Success Taxes," Entrepreneurial Entry, and Innovation
Gentry, William M. - 2004
entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468142
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Does Inflation Targeting Increase Output Volatility? An International Comparison of Policymakers' Preferences and Outcomes
Cecchetti, Stephen G. - 1999
Aggregate shocks that move output and inflation in opposite directions create a tradeoff between output and inflation variability, forcing central bankers to make a choice. Differences in the degree of accommodation of shocks lead to disparate variability outcomes, revealing national central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471355
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Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus : Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists
Avery, Christopher - 2020
This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic that have been influential in recent policy decisions. There is tremendous opportunity for social scientists to advance the relevant literature as new and better data becomes available to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481964
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Efficiency and the Bear : Short Sales and Markets around the World
Goetzmann, William N. - 2003
We analyze cross-sectional and time series information from forty-seven equity markets around the world, to consider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469237
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International Data on Educational Attainment Updates and Implications
Barro, Robert J. - 2000
This paper presents a data set that improves the measurement of educational attainment for a broad group of countries. We extend our previous estimates of educational attainment for the population over age 15 and over age 25 up to 1995 and provide projections for 2000. We discuss the estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470826
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Heterogeneous Frictional Costs Across Industries in Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2016
While there has been significant research to explore the determinants (and frictions) of foreign direct investment (FDI), past literature primarily focuses on country-wide FDI patterns with little examination of sectoral heterogeneity in FDI. Anecdotally, there is substantial sectoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456133
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The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect
Costinot, Arnaud - 2016
The home-market effect, first hypothesized by Linder (1961) and later formalized by Krugman (1980), is the idea that countries with larger demand for some products at home tend to have larger sales of the same products abroad. In this paper, we develop a simple test of the home-market effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456141