This paper provides new evidence about the link between firm level total factor productivity (TFP) and stock returns. We estimate firm level TFP and show that it is strongly related to several firm characteristics such as size, the book to market ratio, investment, and hiring rate. Low...

We find evidence in the OECD cross-country data to support the Knightian view that non-diversifiable economic risks shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and labor risk is found to be statistically significant and...

The presented paper proves that working time arrangements, which include hours flexibility and enable hours deposits, are appealing under product market uncertainty. The model integrates efficiency wage arguments into an implicit insurance-contract environment, thus extending the existing...