In this paper, we use the Kauffman Firm Survey to examine the effect of housing price changes on small business financial variables. We apply macroeconomic forecasting techniques to decompose housing price changes into expected and unexpected components. In addition to investigating the effect...

Do entrepreneurs need tax reform? This chapter presents a critical evaluation of the desirability of tax incentives for small businesses. We discuss measurement issues in identifying entrepreneurs in publicly-available data and then describe recent trends in several measures gleaned from tax...