Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses

by John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda (Economist), Antoinette Schoar

About this book

Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges brings together and unprecedented group of economists, data providers, and data analysts to discuss research on the state of entrepreneurship and to address the challenges in understanding this dynamic part of the economy. Each chapter addresses the challenges of measuring entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurial firms contribute to economies and standards of living. The book also investigates heterogeneity in entrepreneurs, challenges experienced by entrepreneurs over time, and how much less we know than we think about entrepreneurship given data limitations. This volume will be a groundbreaking first serious look into entrepreneurship in the NBER's Income and Wealth series.

ISBN

9780226454078

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication date

2017-09-21

Pages

488

Language

en