How do the careers of entrepreneurs differ from the rest? Which pathways lead to and result from entrepreneurship? Is entrepreneurial experience valued in the labor market? Despite the increasing attention that the topic of entrepreneurship has captured from scholars across different fields,...

The first essay examines the relationship between publicly and privately traded commercial real estate and macroeconomic risk. To represent publicly traded real estate, I use exchange listed US Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), and to proxy for direct and privately traded real estate, I use...