Funny Evidence: Female Comics are the New Policy Entrepreneurs

Are Male and Female Entrepreneurs Really That Different?

The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations found in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of Advocacy, the United States Small Business Administration, or the United States government. This report was developed under a contract with the Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, and contains information and analysis th...

Who are the Entrepreneurs? Evidence from Taxpayer Data

How does the definition of “entrepreneur” affect research results? We use a 12-year panel of individual tax returns to investigate the relationship of the definition of business form to the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs. Tax returns present multiple indicators of business activity—schedule C, partnerships, subchapter S corporations, etc. We document the extent to which various forms...

The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Macroeconomic Variables: New Evidence from a DSGE Model

The purpose of this article is to analyze the macroeconomic impacts of fiscal policy in Iran using a new-Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model. The model takes into account distortionary taxations on wage, dividend, and consumption, while government expenditures are broken down into consumption of goods and services, and investment. The model is calibrated for Iran based...

Entrepreneurs and new ideas

We take the view (advanced, among others, by Schumpeter) that new ideas are original combinations of existing elements. While many random combinations are useless, some represent combinations which ”...t” together, aggregating di¤erent components in a novel and functional way. Thus, in order to appraise an innovative idea it is necessary to have specialized experts examine whether each of its d...

Policy Options for Financing Rural Entrepreneurs