Essays on Small Business: Executive Summary
9 Pages Posted: 9 Feb 2013
Date Written: December 5, 2012
Abstract
Small businesses range from corner stores to high-tech startups and account for nearly all businesses in the United States. In part because of their small size, these businesses are intimately connected with their owners. This dissertation considers two important aspects of this connection. First, I study the role of the entrepreneurial tastes of small business owners in explaining the existence and variety among small businesses. Second, I consider the possibility of underreporting income both to tax authorities and to the surveys economists use to study entrepreneurship, savings, and income in the population.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Firm Dynamics, Small Business Formation, Income Dynamics, Measurement Error
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