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COVID-19 and SMEs: A 2021 "time bomb"?

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021

This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 time bomb for SMEs. Rather, business...

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The local origins of business formation

Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Dunne, Timothy; Haltiwanger, John C. - 2023

comprehensive administrative data on business applications, we analyze the spatial disparity in the creation of business ideas and …

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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2011

A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … saving and correlated abilities. Third, we provide new evidence from matched Current Population Survey (1993-2004) data to …

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Gender differences in business performance: Evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2009

Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses, making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...

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Portfolios of the rich

Carroll, Christopher D. - 2000

Recent research has shown that 'rich' households save at much higher rates than others (see Carroll (2000); Dynan Skinner and Zeldes (1996); Gentry and Hubbard (1998); Huggett (1996); Quadrini (1999)) This paper documents another large difference between the rich and the rest of the population:...

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High-technology entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2011

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

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