are subject to regulation by local authorities, resulting in both practical and strategic implications for manufacturers …, along with a more complex set of innovation incentives. This chapter presents background on medical device regulation … adverse events and recalls), and concludes with a discussion of the implications of regulation for innovation incentives in …

The Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) underpins many studies of firm-level behavior. It tracks …. The resulting Longitudinal Employer, Owner, and Financing (LEOF) database contains more than 3 million observations at the …. Using the LEOF database, we document trends in owner demographics and financing patterns and investigate how these business …

Database (LBD) first introduced by Jarmin and Miranda (2002). The LBD is used to create the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS …

The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide … designed from the ground up with the goals of harmonization and cross-country comparability. This paper introduces the database …

December 2008, a Memphis, TN newspaper published a searchable online database of names, zip codes, and ages of Tennessee … impact of publicity about the database on burglaries. We find that burglaries increased in zip codes with fewer gun permits …, and decreased in those with more gun permits, after the database was publicized …

This paper reviews the economic literature on the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I … highlight key challenges for studying the regulation including the difficulty of finding a suitable control group, variable firm … compliance and regulatory enforcement, as well as the regulation's impact on data observability. The economic literature on the …