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Unemployment, entrepreneurship and firm outcomes
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2019-05)
Are there differences between firms created by unemployed individuals relative to otherwise identical employed individuals? The answer is crucial for understanding the impact of policies that promote entrepreneurship among ...
The housing boom and selection into entrepreneurship
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2019-05)
We provide evidence that the boom in housing prices occurred in the early 2000 distorted the selection of individuals that opened a business. A simple model of collateral financing predicts an increase in entry into ...
Spouses and entrepreneurship
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2019-05)
Does having a spouse influence an individual’s decision to start a firm and what firms they create? The answer to this question is crucial for our understanding of how recent changes to family composition influence firm ...
Entrepreneurship, outside options and constrained
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2019-05)
The literature on search frictions has often adopted the assumption of free entry. In this paper we forgo of this restriction by proposing a more realistic framework in which individuals are constantly making the decision ...