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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 …
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A Unified Theory of Firm Selection and Growth
Arkolakis, Costas - 2011
This paper studies the effects of marketing choice to firm growth. I assume that firm-level growth is the result of idiosyncratic productivity improvements with continuous arrival of new potential producers. A firm enters a market if it is profitable to incur the marginal cost to reach the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461105
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Entrepreneurial Taxation with Endogenous Entry
Scheuer, Florian - 2013
This paper analyzes Pareto optimal non-linear taxation of profits and labor income in a private information economy with endogenous firm formation. Individuals differ in both their skill and their cost of setting up a firm, and choose between becoming workers and entrepreneurs. I show that a tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459427
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Does Local Financial Development Matter?
Guiso, Luigi - 2002
by theory, these effects are weaker for larger firms, which can more easily raise funds outside of the local area …
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On the Ubiquity of Declining Business Dynamism
Hummels, David; Yue, Kan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Recent work documents declining business dynamism in the United States, with concerning implications for markups, innovation and productivity. Using import data for 146 countries over three decades we document a set of new stylized facts describing market dynamism world-wide. Market entry rates...
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From Population Growth to Firm Demographics : Implications for Concentration, Entrepreneurship and the Labor Share
Hopenhayn, Hugo - 2018
The US economy has undergone a number of puzzling changes in recent decades. Large firms now account for a greater share of economic activity, new firms are being created at a slower rate, and workers are getting paid a smaller share of GDP. This paper shows that changes in population growth...
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What is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent “Lottery”
Farre-Mensa, Joan - 2017
We provide evidence on the value of patents to startups by leveraging the random assignment of applications to examiners with different propensities to grant patents. Using unique data on all first-time applications filed at the U.S. Patent Office since 2001, we find that startups that win the...
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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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Credit Supply Shocks and Firm Dynamics : Evidence from Brazil
Bazzi, Samuel; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Oliveira, Raquel F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We explore how financial constraints distort the entry decisions among otherwise productive entrepreneurs and limit growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit constraints can induce more entry of firms with greater long-run...
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