Browsing by Subject "Entrepreneurship"
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A Business Plan for Residential Microgrid Software
(2020-04-21)Have you ever thought about going solar or getting an electric vehicle? Do you know which utility rate would save you the most money? Does getting a battery make sense for your home? BUILD MY GRID is the first ... -
Entrepreneurial Attractiveness: Amazon, Google, and the Search for Innovative Hot Spots
(2018-04-18)Recent economic literature suggests that entrepreneurship in technological fields can spur economic growth, making it a popular topic for city development officials. Yet, this increasingly popular phenomenon is met by many ... -
Essays in Real Estate and the Real Economy
(2014)This dissertation explores the causes and consequences of real estate price fluctuations. Given the collapse of US house prices during 2007-2009 along with the simultaneous rise in national unemployment an thorough understanding ... -
Essays on Entrepreneurship and Local Labor Markets
(2020)This dissertation explores the relationship between external shocks local labor markets and entrepreneurship. The first and main essay investigates the effects of a large firm's geographical expansion (anchor firm) on local ... -
Essays on Firm Behavior
(2023)This dissertation studies three questions in which economic behavior at the firm level plays an important role. Chapter 2 studies how individual owner-managers shape firm conduct in the labor market. I use survey ... -
Essays on Science and Innovation
(2022)The commercialization of scientific discoveries into innovation has traditionally been the purview of large corporations operating central R&D laboratories through much of the past century. The past four decades have seen ... -
Essays on Technological Change: Firm Organization, Problem Selection, and Diffusion
(2020)This dissertation investigates three aspects of technological change. In the first essay, I build on prior research that suggests new ventures are often more innovative than established firms. One unexplored reason for this ... -
Essays on the Determinants of Public Funding for Universities and the Impact on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
(2019)This dissertation is comprised of three studies that investigate the implications and determinants of public funding for universities. The first chapter lays down the foundation for the other two studies. I discuss ... -
Investing in the Homeland: Foreign Assets and Patterns of Immigrant Economic Incorporation
(2016)This dissertation consists of three separate studies that examine patterns of immigrant incorporation in the United States. The first study tests competing hypotheses derived from conflicting theoretical frameworks−transnational ... -
The Life Cycle of Corporate Venture Capital
(2016)This paper establishes the life-cycle dynamics of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) to explore the information acquisition role of CVC investment in the process of corporate innovation. I exploit an identification strategy ... -
The Management, Organization, and Geography of Novel Innovation
(2017)This dissertation develops new theory and evidence on the antecedents and consequences of innovation for firms, and includes three empirical studies focusing on various facets of the management, organization, and geography ... -
Topics in Selective Migration and Economic Assimilation of New Immigrants
(2020)My dissertation comprises three studies on topics in selective migration and economic assimilation of new immigrants. The first study examines the influence of selective migration on Asian Americans’ academic success. ... -
Transcending Death Through Organizational Birth
(2015)In this dissertation, I develop and test a theory linking the legacy motive to entrepreneurship. After examining evidence in support of the desire to make a lasting impact as a source of motivation for the founders of new ...
