Links between disturbances in financial markets and those in real activity have long been the focus of studies of economic fluctuations during the period prior to World War I. We emphasize that domestic autonomy was substantially limited by internationally integrated markets for goods and...

Discusses the connection between conventional models of business investment and the literature on the imperfections in capital markets and the differences in individual firms' abilities to access these markets. Financing methods considered in this analysis include short-term bank debt, long-term...

Interest in the role of entrepreneurial entry in innovation raises the question of the extent to which tax policy encourages or discourages entry. We find that, while the level of the marginal tax rate has a negative effect in entrepreneurial entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages...