Sweat equity is investment in a business that is financed by owner-workers being compensated at less than their market rate. Taking into account the hours spent building sweat equity while ignoring the output introduces an error in measured productivity and distorts the picture of what is...

Given a common technology for replicating blueprints, high-quality blueprints will be replicated more quickly than low-quality blueprints. If quality begets quality, and firms are identified with collections of blueprints derived from the same initial blueprint, then, along a balanced growth...

We analyse how countries' innovation outcomes are affected by national legislations of worker participation to corporate governance. We develop a model of employee representation laws (ERL) and innovation in the presence of incomplete labour contracts and predict heterogeneous ERL effects across...