This paper examines the relation between ownership, corporate form, and innovation for a cross-section of private and publicly traded innovating firms in the US and 15 European countries. A striking novel observation emerges from our analysis: while most innovating firms in the US are publicly...

Using novel data on European firms, this paper examines the effect of business group affiliation on innovation. We find that business groups foster the scale and novelty of corporate innovation. Group affiliation is particularly important in industries that rely more on external finance and have...

The Management Practices data set covers 732 medium-sized manufacturing firms in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany. The measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, and survival rates. Once the download is...

The management practices data set covers 732 medium-sized manufacturing firms in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany. The measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, and survival rates

AmaPat is a unique comprehensive dataset combining detailed information on ownership structure, corporate innovation, and financial reports. Download the slides at: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper=1027909 Download the audio file at: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper=1028824

Using detailed ownership and financial information available for a large sample of owner-managed private firms in three West European countries, this paper examines the relationship between manager's age and firm's performance. Tracking firms over time, we find that as a manager ages, the firm...