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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
Bloom, Nick - 2006
US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466452
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The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States during the Early Twentieth Century
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2009
The standard view of U.S. technological history is that the locus of invention shifted during the early twentieth century to large firms whose in-house research laboratories were superior sites for advancing the complex technologies of the second industrial revolution. In recent years this view...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463209
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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs : Empirical Evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2008
Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity, especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464055
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The Importance (or not) of Patents to UK Firms
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013
innovative performance measured as turnover due to innovation, but not between patenting and subsequent employment growth. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459572
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Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms : Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program
Link, Albert N. - 2012
There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460364
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University-Industry Spillovers, Government Funding, and Industrial Consulting
Jensen, Richard - 2010
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 inventors from 8 major US universities. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462919
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Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2000
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470760
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Optimal Risk Management Using Options
Ahn, Dong-Hyun - 1997
This paper addresses the question of how an institution might optimally manage the market risk of a given exposure. We provide an analytical approach to optimal risk management under the assumption that the institution wishes to minimize its Value-at-Risk (VaR) using options follows a geometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472656
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458134
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose : Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean - 2012
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460338