We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

rents; however, there is limited evidence regarding the impact of innovation on risk. We shed new light on how firms …' involvement in innovation activities impacts their volatility, particularly their idiosyncratic volatility. In this paper, we … empirically examine the effect of innovation on idiosyncratic volatility. To do so, we empirically examine the impact of …