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Working Papers

2023

1. Catching Outliers: Committee Voting and the Limits of Consensus when Financing Innovation
   Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School
2. Founder-CEO Compensation and Selection into Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurship
   Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (3)
   Also in SocArXiv, Center for Open Science (2020)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020) View citations (3)
3. Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School (2019) View citations (1)
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2019) View citations (1)
4. Scoring and Funding Breakthrough Ideas: Evidence from a Global Pharmaceutical Company
   Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School

2021

5. Financing Constraints, Home Equity and Selection into Entrepreneurship
   Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (14)
   Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2014) View citations (28)
   CEBI working paper series, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. The Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) (2021)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014) View citations (16)
   See also Journal Article Financing constraints, home equity and selection into entrepreneurship, Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier (2022) View citations (10) (2022)
6. Sampling Bias in Entrepreneurial Experiments
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Sampling Bias in Entrepreneurial Experiments, Management Science, INFORMS (2024) (2024)
7. Venture Capital Booms and Startup Financing
   Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Venture Capital Booms and Start-Up Financing, Annual Review of Financial Economics, Annual Reviews (2021) View citations (1) (2021)

2020

8. Biased sampling of early users and the direction of startup innovation
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science
   Also in SocArXiv, Center for Open Science (2020)
9. Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation
   Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (33)
10. How Resilient is Venture-Backed Innovation? Evidence from Four Decades of U.S. Patenting
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (14)
11. The Evolution of CEO Compensation in Venture Capital Backed Startups
    SocArXiv, Center for Open Science View citations (3)
12. Venture Capital’s Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (73)
    See also Journal Article Venture Capital's Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn, Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association (2020) View citations (72) (2020)

2019

13. Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (12)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019) View citations (16)
    See also Journal Article Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press (2024) (2024)
14. The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (2)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018) View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article The persistent effect of initial success: Evidence from venture capital, Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier (2020) View citations (24) (2020)

2018

15. Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
    Also in Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School (2018) View citations (5)
16. Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (70)
    Also in Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School (2017) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Cost of experimentation and the evolution of venture capital, Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier (2018) View citations (58) (2018)
17. Financial Development and Technology Diffusion
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (7)
    Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2014) View citations (12)
    See also Journal Article Financial Development and Technology Diffusion, IMF Economic Review, Palgrave Macmillan (2019) View citations (26) (2019)
18. The Employment Effects of Faster Payment: Evidence from the Federal Quickpay Reform
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article The Employment Effects of Faster Payment: Evidence from the Federal Quickpay Reform, Journal of Finance, American Finance Association (2020) View citations (36) (2020)

2017

19. Innovation Policies
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (8)

2016

20. Can Paying Firms Quicker Affect Aggregate Employment?
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences View citations (8)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016) View citations (9)

2015

21. Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation, Innovation Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press (2016) View citations (16) (2016)
    Chapter Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2015) View citations (2) (2015)
22. Financing innovation
    Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers, Bank of Finland View citations (133)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014) View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article Financing Innovation, Annual Review of Financial Economics, Annual Reviews (2015) View citations (126) (2015)
23. House Money and Entrepreneurship
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (42)
24. House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)
    See also Journal Article House prices, home equity and entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. census micro data, Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier (2022) View citations (6) (2022)
25. Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics
    Working Papers, HAL
    Also in HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris (2015)
    Working Papers, HAL (2015)
    Post-Print, HAL (2014) View citations (95)
    See also Journal Article Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association (2014) View citations (128) (2014)
26. Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (62)
    See also Journal Article Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts, Management Science, INFORMS (2016) View citations (75) (2016)

2014

27. Did Bank Distress Stifle Innovation During the Great Depression?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (104)
    See also Journal Article Did bank distress stifle innovation during the Great Depression?, Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier (2014) View citations (91) (2014)
28. Entrepreneurship as Experimentation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (223)
    See also Journal Article Entrepreneurship as Experimentation, Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association (2014) View citations (225) (2014)
29. Financing Risk and Innovation
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (26)

2013

30. Innovation and the Financial Guillotine
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)

2012

31. Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article Investment cycles and startup innovation, Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier (2013) View citations (133) (2013)

2011

32. A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article A darker side to decentralized banks: Market power and credit rationing in SME lending, Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier (2012) View citations (96) (2012)

2010

33. Entrepreneurship and the Discipline of External Finance
    Working Papers, University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics View citations (9)
    Also in Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School (2010) View citations (4)
34. Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (46)

2009

35. Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (26)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2009) View citations (29)
    See also Journal Article Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Firm Entry Size, Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press (2010) View citations (36) (2010)
36. Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell (2010) View citations (61) (2010)
37. Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (299)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2009) View citations (258)

2008

38. Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (26)
39. Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School View citations (21)
    Also in Working Papers, U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies (2007) View citations (20)
    See also Journal Article Democratizing entry: Banking deregulations, financing constraints, and entrepreneurship, Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier (2009) View citations (319) (2009)

Undated

40. Priors, Experiments, Learning and Persuasion in (Bayesian) Entrepreneurial Finance
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School

Journal Articles

2024

1. JUE insight: Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India’s GQ highway network
   Journal of Urban Economics, 2024, 142, (C)
2. Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
   Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2024, 59, (6), 2733-2761
   See also Working Paper Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School Working Papers (2019) View citations (12) (2019)
3. Sampling Bias in Entrepreneurial Experiments
   Management Science, 2024, 70, (10), 7283-7307
   See also Working Paper Sampling Bias in Entrepreneurial Experiments, NBER Working Papers (2021) View citations (1) (2021)

2023

4. Innovating to Net Zero: Can Venture Capital and Start-Ups Play a Meaningful Role?
   Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy, 2023, 2, (1), 79 - 105 View citations (1)
   See also Chapter Innovating to Net Zero: Can Venture Capital and Start-Ups Play a Meaningful Role?, NBER Chapters, 2022, 79-105 (2022) View citations (4) (2022)

2022

5. Financing constraints, home equity and selection into entrepreneurship
   Journal of Financial Economics, 2022, 145, (2), 318-337 View citations (10)
   See also Working Paper Financing Constraints, Home Equity and Selection into Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School Working Papers (2021) View citations (14) (2021)
6. House prices, home equity and entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. census micro data
   Journal of Monetary Economics, 2022, 130, (C), 103-119 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data, NBER Working Papers (2015) View citations (10) (2015)

2021

7. Venture Capital Booms and Start-Up Financing
   Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2021, 13, (1), 111-127 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Venture Capital Booms and Startup Financing, Cambridge Working Papers in Economics (2021) View citations (3) (2021)

2020

8. The Employment Effects of Faster Payment: Evidence from the Federal Quickpay Reform
   Journal of Finance, 2020, 75, (6), 3139-3173 View citations (36)
   See also Working Paper The Employment Effects of Faster Payment: Evidence from the Federal Quickpay Reform, Harvard Business School Working Papers (2018) View citations (1) (2018)
9. The persistent effect of initial success: Evidence from venture capital
   Journal of Financial Economics, 2020, 137, (1), 231-248 View citations (24)
   See also Working Paper The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital, Harvard Business School Working Papers (2019) View citations (2) (2019)
10. Venture Capital's Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020, 34, (3), 237-61 View citations (72)
    See also Working Paper Venture Capital’s Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn, NBER Working Papers (2020) View citations (73) (2020)

2019

11. Financial Development and Technology Diffusion
    IMF Economic Review, 2019, 67, (2), 395-419 View citations (26)
    See also Working Paper Financial Development and Technology Diffusion, Harvard Business School Working Papers (2018) View citations (7) (2018)

2018

12. Cost of experimentation and the evolution of venture capital
    Journal of Financial Economics, 2018, 128, (3), 422-442 View citations (58)
    See also Working Paper Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital, NBER Working Papers (2018) View citations (70) (2018)

2016

13. Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation
    Innovation Policy and the Economy, 2016, 16, (1), 1 - 23 View citations (16)
    See also Working Paper Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation, NBER Working Papers (2015) View citations (2) (2015)
    Chapter Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation, NBER Chapters, 2015, 1-23 (2015) View citations (2) (2015)
14. Financing high-potential entrepreneurship
    IZA World of Labor, 2016, 252 View citations (6)
15. Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts
    Management Science, 2016, 62, (6), 1533-1553 View citations (75)
    See also Working Paper Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts, Harvard Business School Working Papers (2015) View citations (62) (2015)

2015

16. Financing Innovation
    Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2015, 7, (1), 445-462 View citations (126)
    See also Working Paper Financing innovation, Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers (2015) View citations (133) (2015)

2014

17. Did bank distress stifle innovation during the Great Depression?
    Journal of Financial Economics, 2014, 114, (2), 273-292 View citations (91)
    See also Working Paper Did Bank Distress Stifle Innovation During the Great Depression?, NBER Working Papers (2014) View citations (104) (2014)
18. Entrepreneurship as Experimentation
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014, 28, (3), 25-48 View citations (225)
    See also Working Paper Entrepreneurship as Experimentation, NBER Working Papers (2014) View citations (223) (2014)
19. Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014, 28, (3), 49-70 View citations (128)
    See also Working Paper Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics, Working Papers (2015) (2015)

2013

20. Investment cycles and startup innovation
    Journal of Financial Economics, 2013, 110, (2), 403-418 View citations (133)
    See also Working Paper Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation, Harvard Business School Working Papers (2012) View citations (7) (2012)

2012

21. A darker side to decentralized banks: Market power and credit rationing in SME lending
    Journal of Financial Economics, 2012, 105, (2), 353-366 View citations (96)
    See also Working Paper A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending, Harvard Business School Working Papers (2011) View citations (5) (2011)

2010

22. Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Firm Entry Size
    Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8, (2-3), 582-593 View citations (36)
    See also Working Paper Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size, Harvard Business School Working Papers (2009) View citations (26) (2009)
23. Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry
    Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2010, 19, (4), 991-1012 View citations (61)
    See also Working Paper Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry, Harvard Business School Working Papers (2009) View citations (7) (2009)
24. Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship
    Management Science, 2010, 56, (7), 1116-1126 View citations (175)

2009

25. Democratizing entry: Banking deregulations, financing constraints, and entrepreneurship
    Journal of Financial Economics, 2009, 94, (1), 124-149 View citations (319)
    See also Working Paper Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School Working Papers (2008) View citations (21) (2008)

Chapters

2022

1. Innovating to Net Zero: Can Venture Capital and Start-Ups Play a Meaningful Role?
   A chapter in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy, volume 2, 2022, pp 79-105 View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Innovating to Net Zero: Can Venture Capital and Start-Ups Play a Meaningful Role?, University of Chicago Press (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2015

2. Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation
   A chapter in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16, 2015, pp 1-23 View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation, University of Chicago Press (2016) View citations (16) (2016)
   Working Paper Financing Entrepreneurial Experimentation, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2015) View citations (2) (2015)

2014

3. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy
   A chapter in The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, 2014, pp 199-232 View citations (11)