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Political Reservations and Women’s Entrepreneurship in India
(Elsevier, 2014-10-28)
We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing ...
Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2014-10-28)
We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction ...
The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity
(Elsevier, 2015-02-19)
We examine twenty years of direct private equity investments by seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. ...
Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2016-06)
In fields as diverse as technology entrepreneurship and the arts, crowds of interested stakeholders are increasingly responsible for deciding which innovations to fund, a privilege that was previously reserved for a few ...