Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses : Current Knowledge and Challenges / Antoinette Schoar, Erik Hurst, John Haltiwanger, Javier Miranda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haltiwanger, John, editor.

Hurst, Erik, editor.

Miranda, Javier, editor.

Schoar, Antoinette, editor.

Series:

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 75.

National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth ; 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship--Evaluation.

Entrepreneurship.

Business enterprises--Evaluation.

Business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Start-ups and other entrepreneurial ventures make a significant contribution to the US economy, particularly in the tech sector, where they comprise some of the largest and most influential companies. Yet for every high-profile, high-growth company like Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google, many more fail. This enormous heterogeneity poses conceptual and measurement challenges for economists concerned with understanding their precise impact on economic growth. Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses brings together economists and data analysts to discuss the most recent research covering three broad themes. The first chapters isolate high- and low-performing entrepreneurial ventures and analyze their roles in creating jobs and driving innovation and productivity. The next chapters turn the focus on specific challenges entrepreneurs face and how they have varied over time, including over business cycles. The final chapters explore core measurement issues, with a focus on new data projects under development that may improve our understanding of this dynamic part of the economy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research

Contents

Prefatory Note

Introduction / Haltiwanger, John / Hurst, Erik / Miranda, Javier / Schoar, Antoinette

I. Entrepreneurial Heterogeneity

1. High-Growth Young Firms / Haltiwanger, John / Jarmin, Ron S. / Kulick, Robert / Miranda, Javier

2. Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance / Guzman, Jorge / Stern, Scott

3. Wealth, Tastes, and Entrepreneurial Choice / Hurst, Erik / Pugsley, Benjamin W.

4. Are Founder CEOs Good Managers? / Bennett, Victor Manuel / Lawrence, Megan / Sadun, Raffaella

5. Immigrant Entrepreneurship / Kerr, Sari Pekkala / Kerr, William R.

II. Challenges Facing Entrepreneurs: Finance and Business Conditions

6. How Did Young Firms Fare during the Great Recession? / Zarutskie, Rebecca / Yang, Tiantian

7. Small Businesses and Small Business Finance during the Financial Crisis and the Great Recession / Kennickell, Arthur B. / Kwast, Myron L. / Pogach, Jonathan

8. Does Unemployment Insurance Change the Selection into Entrepreneurship? / Hombert, Johan / Schoar, Antoinette / Sraer, David / Thesmar, David

9. Job Creation, Small versus Large versus Young, and the SBA / Brown, J. David / Earle, John S. / Morgulis, Yana

III. Data Gaps and Promising Avenues for the Future

10. Venture Capital Data / Kaplan, Steven N. / Lerner, Josh

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226454108

022645410X

OCLC:

1005354312