From population growth to firm demographics: Implications for concentration, entrepreneurship and the labor share

H Hopenhayn, J Neira, R Singhania - Econometrica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the US, large firms now account for a greater share of economic activity, new firms are
being created at slower rates, and workers are receiving a smaller share of GDP. Changes …

Demographic Origins of the start-up Deficit

F Karahan, B Pugsley, A Şahin - American Economic Review, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
We propose a simple explanation for the long-run decline in the US start-up rate. It
originates from a slowdown in labor supply growth since the late 1970s, largely …

Grown-up business cycles

BW Pugsley, A Șahin - The Review of Financial Studies, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The entry rate of US employer businesses has declined for more than 30 years. We use a
novel dynamic decomposition framework to show that regardless of its causes, the direct …

Entrepreneurial intention in the time of crisis: a field study

A Arrighetti, L Caricati, F Landini… - International Journal of …, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of a prolonged economic
recession on the entrepreneurial intentions of young people (university students) …

Causes and consequences of hysteresis: aggregate demand, productivity, and employment

G Dosi, MC Pereira, A Roventini… - … and Corporate Change, 2018 - academic.oup.com
In this work we develop an agent-based model where hysteresis in major macroeconomic
variables (eg, gross domestic product, productivity, unemployment) emerges out of the …

Firm entry and macroeconomic dynamics: a state-level analysis

F Gourio, T Messer, M Siemer - American Economic Review, 2016 - aeaweb.org
Using an annual panel of US states over the period 1982-2014, we estimate the response of
macroeconomic variables to a shock to the number of new firms (startups). We find that …

Innovation and product reallocation in the great recession

D Argente, M Lee, S Moreira - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
We use detailed product-and firm-level data to study the sources of innovation and the
patterns of productivity growth over the period from 2007 to 2013. We document several new …

From the entrepreneurial to the ossified economy

W Naudé - Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Entrepreneurship in advanced economies is in decline. Instead of becoming
'entrepreneurial', as was anticipated in the 1990s, today, these economies are better …

[HTML][HTML] The labour-augmented k+ s model: A laboratory for the analysis of institutional and policy regimes

G Dosi, MC Pereira, A Roventini, ME Virgillito - EconomiA, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work we discuss the research findings from the labour-augmented Schumpeter
meeting Keynes (K+ S) agent-based model. It comprises comparative dynamics experiments …

The original sin: Firms' dynamics and the life-cycle consequences of economic conditions at birth

L Cavallari, S Romano, P Naticchioni - European Economic Review, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents new evidence suggesting that the aggregate conditions faced by
businesses in the year of birth affect their performance over the entire life cycle. Using a …