To date, there remains much confusion about when the first cases of COVID-19 occurred in the U.S. This knowledge informs models of COVID-19 transmission and impacts its estimated fatality rate. We employed a differencing analysis on the Current Population Survey (CPS) to examine how rates of...

The present analysis examines the initiation of necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship ventures in Canada from the late 1980s until more recent times, to determine how these activities relate with the business cycle. The definitions of necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship mirror those...

Using Consumer Finance Monthly national survey, we demonstrate that credit unions in the US did little to help consumers obtain home equity lines of credit (HELOC) during the recent financial crisis. Our results hold after including a two-stage regression structure using the availability of...