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Small Business Survival Capabilities and Policy Effectiveness : Evidence from Oakland

Bartlett, Robert P. - 2020

Using unique City of Oakland data during COVID-19, we document that small business survival capabilities vary by firm size as a function of revenue resiliency, labor flexibility, and committed costs. Nonemployer businesses rely on low cost structures to survive 73% declines in own-store foot...

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The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses

Bartik, Alexander - 2020

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) aimed to quickly deliver hundreds of billions of dollars of loans to small businesses, with the loans administered via private banks. In this paper, we use firm-level data to document the demand and supply of PPP funds. Using an instrumental variables...

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The Effects of Covid-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees

Alekseev, Georgij - 2020

We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to … understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April … businesses that had stopped operating due to the pandemic. The survey asks 136 questions covering topics such as changes in …

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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners : Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...

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Job Creation, Small vs. Large vs. Young, and the Sba

Brown, J. David - 2015

Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression methods to estimate the variation in SBA loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm...

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Wealth, Tastes, and Entrepreneurial Choice

Hurst, Erik - 2015

The non-pecuniary benefits of managing a small business are a first order consideration for many nascent entrepreneurs, yet the preference for business ownership is mostly ignored in models of entrepreneurship and occupational choice. In this paper, we study a population with varying...

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The Importance (or Not) of Patents to UK Firms

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2015

those reporting that they have innovated is about 4%. Survey data from the same firms support the idea that they do not …

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Patent Trading Flows of Small and Large Firms

Figueroa, Nicolas - 2015

This article presents the results of an analysis of the patent trading flows of small and large firms and the determinants of these firm's patent sale and acquisition decisions. We also examine whether these transactions lead to an excessive concentration of patent rights. We show that small...

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Tax Credits and Small Firm R&D Spending

Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2014

In 2004, Canada changed the eligibility rules for its Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SRED) tax credit, which provides tax incentives for R&D conducted by small private firms. Difference in difference estimates show a seventeen percent increase in total R&D among eligible...

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The Direct and Indirect Effects of Small Business Administration Lending on Growth : Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data

Young, Andrew T. - 2014

Conventional wisdom suggests that small businesses are innovative engines of Schumpetarian growth. However, as small businesses, they are likely to face credit rationing in financial markets. If true then policies that promote lending to small businesses may yield substantial economy-wide...

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