Abstract Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business
competitiveness, and economic performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech …

Empirical evidence on the relations between board independence and board decisions and
firm performance is generally confounded by serious endogeneity issues. We circumvent …

We study the effects of noncompetition agreements by analyzing time-series and cross-
sectional variation in the enforceability of these contracts across US states. We find that …

CEOs with large networks earn more than those with small networks. An additional
connection to an executive or director outside the firm increases compensation by about …

We find that fixed effects related to the location of firms' headquarters explain variation in
broad based option grants after controlling for industry effects and firm characteristics …

Thoroughly revised and updated, International Entrepreneurship explains the opportunities
and challenges facing internationalising entrepreneurial ventures. With a new section on …

This paper investigates the relation between firms' locations and their corporate finance
decisions. We develop a model where being located within an industry cluster increases …

Many prior treatments of agglomeration explicitly or implicitly assume that all industries
agglomerate for the same reasons. This paper uses UK establishment-level …

This study investigates the causal effect of human capital on entrepreneurship. We use
China's higher-education expansion in 1999 as an exogenous shock to conduct difference …

Are all startups similarly affected by the survival benefits and drawbacks of locating in
geographic clusters? In this paper, we argue that prior theorizing may have missed …