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On the Size Distribution of Employment and Establishments

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1986

Recent arguments that employment growth occurs disproportionately at small establishments are fundamentally misleading because they confuse regression to the mean with structural shifts in the size distribution of establishments and with an aging effect within cohorts. The net growth usually...

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Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms

Howell, Sabrina T. - 2020

, but productivity growth cannot fully explain the immediate effect on earnings. Instead, the data and a grantee survey are …

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Communication within Banking Organizations and Small Business Lending

Levine, Ross - 2019

We investigate how communication within banks affects small business lending. Using travel time between a bank's headquarters and its branches to proxy for the costs of communicating soft information, we exploit shocks to these travel times to evaluate the impact of within bank communication...

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Does a One-Size-Fits-All Minimum Wage Cause Financial Stress for Small Businesses?

Chava, Sudheer - 2019

Do increases in federal minimum wage impact the financial health of small businesses? Using intertemporal variation in whether a state's minimum wage is bound by the federal rate and credit-score data for approximately 15.2 million establishments for the period 1989-2013, we find that increases...

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Large Banks and Small Firm Lending

Bord, Vitaly M. - 2018

We show that since 2007, there was a large and persistent shift in the composition of lenders to small firms. Large banks impacted by the real estate prices collapse systematically contracted their credit to all small firms throughout the U.S.. However, healthy banks expanded their operations...

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Clearing the Bar : Improving Tax Compliance for Small Firms through Target Setting

Al-Karablieh, Yazan - 2020

We use a new dataset consisting of the universe of Greek corporate tax returns matched to financial statements to study a voluntary tax compliance program for small firms. This "self-assessment" program prescribed target taxable profit margins for different types of activity. Firms that reported...

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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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COVID-19 and SME Failures

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020

We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners : The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...

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

Bartik, Alexander W. - 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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