Knowing the Who: Identifying the effect of entrepreneurs on firms

Do entrepreneurs matter? Sascha O. Becker (s.o.becker@warwick.ac.uk), CAGE University of Warwick Hans K. Hvide (hans.hvide@econ.uib.no), University of Bergen, CEPR and University of Aberdeen Abstract Within the broad literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether … Continue reading Knowing the Who: Identifying the effect of entrepreneurs on firms