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Kominers, Scott Duke; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2010

We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...

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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William; Lincoln, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014

Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...

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Agglomeration and Innovation

Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities....

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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2012

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly … instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this …

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Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship

Kerr, William; Nanda, Ramana - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2006

We examine entrepreneurship and creative destruction following US banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. US … banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. The vast majority of closures …

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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...

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Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

Nanda, Ramana; Khanna, Tarun - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2007

This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurs in developing countries by examining ties between the Indian expatriate community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that local entrepreneurs who have previously lived outside India...

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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

Autor, David H.; Kerr, William R.; Kugler, Adriana D. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2007

Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical...

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Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2005

This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an ethnic-name database to...

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Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship

Nanda, Ramana - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique micro-data from Denmark to study how exogenous … changes in the cost of external finance shape both the probability of entering entrepreneurship and the characteristics of … wealth and entrepreneurship may be driven by the fact that wealthy individuals with lower ability can start new businesses …

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