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From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

Falck, Oliver; Guenther, Christina; Heblich, Stephan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...

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Labor Regulations and European Private Equity

Bozkaya, Ant; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms....

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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity

Foley, C. Fritz; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …

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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and …

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Innovation, reallocation and growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

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Financing Innovation

Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This … related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects … innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs. …

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Labor regulations and European venture capital

Bozkaya, Ant; Kerr, William R. - Suomen Pankki - 2013

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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; bloom, nicholas; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

to fostering innovation. …

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Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; Stanton, Christopher T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic...

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