Research

His research is in business dynamism, job creation and productivity growth, with a focus on the factors affecting firm behavior, in determining macroeconomic outcomes.

Current Research Topics

Business dynamics of trading firms
Business and productivity dynamics of automation
Entrepreneurship and early labor market experience
Innovation and productivity growth

Working Papers

With Pierre Azoulay, Benjamin Jones, and J. Daniel Kim “Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the United States.” No. w27778. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020.
With Martha Stinson and Kristin Sandusky, “The Career Implications of Startup Work Experience”, 2020
With Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ben Lipsius, and Josh Lerner, “The Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts.” 2020

Selected Refereed Publications

With Nikolas Zolas, “Measuring the Impact of Household Innovation using Administrative Data.” In Measuring And Accounting For Innovation In The Twenty-First Century, Editors Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Javier Miranda & Daniel Sichel, University Of Chicago Press, Studies In Income And Wealth, 2021.
With Ryan A Decker, John C. Haltiwanger and Ron S. Jarmin, “Changing Business Dynamism and Productivity: Shocks vs. Responsiveness.” American Economic Review 110, no. 12 (2020): 3952-90, 2020
With Nathan Goldschlag, "Business Dynamics Statistics of High Tech Industries." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 29(1), 3-30, 2020
With Pierre Azoulay, Ben Jones and Danny Kim, “Age and High Growth Entrepreneurship.” 2019 American Economic Review: Insights 2(1), pp.65-82. NBER Digest, 2019
With Rob Fairlie and Nik Zolas, “Measuring Job Creation, Growth, and Survival among the Universe of Start-ups in the United States Using a Combined Start-up Panel Data Set.” 2019 Industrial and Labor Relations Review , Volume 72 Issue 5, October 2019
With Kim Bayard, Emin Dinlersoz, Tim Dunne, John Haltiwanger and John Stevens, “Early-Stage Business Formation: An Analysis of Applications for Employer Identification Numbers.” 2018 NBER WP 24364.
With Rob Kulick, John Haltiwanger, and Ron Jarmin, “High Growth Young Firms: Contribution to Job, Output and Productivity Growth” NBER book Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges, 2017
With Emek Basker, “Taken by Storm: Business Survival in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina”. 2017 Journal of Economic Geography, 17(5), August 2017
With Ryan A. Decker, John Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, “Declining Dynamism, Allocative Efficiency, and the Productivity Slowdown” AER (Papers and Proceeding), vol. 107, no. 5, May 2017.
With Stuart Graham, Cheryl Grim, Tariqul Islam, Alan Marco, “Business Dynamics of Innovating Firms: Linking U.S. Patents with Administrative Data on Workers and Firms.” Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 27(3), 372-402, 2017.
With Rob Fairlie, “Taking the Leap: The Determinants of Entrepreneurs Hiring their First Employee” Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 26(1), 2016.
With Ryan A. Decker, John Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, “Declining business dynamism: Implications for productivity?” 2016 Brookings Institution Report.
With Ryan Decker, John Haltiwanger, and Ron Jarmin, “Where has all the skewness gone? The decline in high-growth (young) firms in the U.S.” European Economic Review, 86 (July):4-23, 2016.
With by Ryan Decker, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, “Declining Business Dynamism: What We Know and the Way Forward”. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 106(5)”203-7, 2016.
With Ryan Decker, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, “The Decline of High–Growth Entrepreneurship.” 2016 Vox.
With Ryan Decker, John Haltiwanger, and Ron Jarmin, “The Role of Entrepreneurship in U.S. Job Creation and Economic Dynamism.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014.
With Steven J. Davis, John C. Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron S. Jarmin, Josh Lerner, “Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity.” 2014 American Economic Review.
With John Haltiwanger and Ron Jarmin, “Who creates jobs? Small vs Large vs Young.” 2013 Review of Economic and Statistics, Vol 28 (2014), Issue: 3 (Summer), Pages: 3-24.
With J. Haltiwanger, R. Jarmin, and Teresa Fort, "How Firms Respond to Business Cycles: The Role of Firm Age and Firm Size," IMF Economic Review, 61, 2013; The NBER Digest, 2013
With Ron Jarmin, John Haltiwanger, Steve Davis and Jason Faberman, “Business Volatility, Job Destruction and Unemployment”. American Economic Journal Macroeconomics, April 2010.
With Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Josh Lerner, “Private Equity, Jobs and Productivity” in Globalization of Alternative Investments, Working Papers Volume 2, World Economic Forum, 2009.
With Steven Davis, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Josh Lerner, "Private Equity and Employment" in Globalization of Alternative Investments, Working Papers Volume 1, World Economic Forum, 2008.
With Ron Jarmin, "The Impact of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma on Business Establishments: A GIS Approach" Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis, Vol 4, Issue 2 (April 2009).
With Stephen Davis, John Haltiwanger & Ron Jarmin, "Volatility and Dispersion in Business Growth Rates: Publicly Traded Versus Privately Held Firms" NBER Macroannual 2006, Vol 21, pg107-157.
With Ron Jarmin, "The Longitudinal Business Database: A Primer," 2002 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Business and Economics Statistics.
With Ron Jarmin, “The Longitudinal Business Database.” Center for Economic Studies Discussion Papers, CES 02-17.