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Alex Coad
Researcher at Waseda University
Publications - 213
Citations - 9226
Alex Coad is an academic researcher from Waseda University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Entrepreneurship & Productivity. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 213 publications receiving 7643 citations. Previous affiliations of Alex Coad include Pontifical Catholic University of Peru & Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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New Venture Survival and Growth: When does the fog lift?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the growth and survival of 6247 new ventures that are tracked using the customer records at Barclays Bank and put forward Gambler's Ruin as a simple theory for understanding new venture growth.
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My First Employee: An Empirical Investigation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed Danish matched employer-employee data to understand how solo entrepreneurs add their first employee and the antecedents of hiring, and found that those who hire enjoy superior sales outcomes in subsequent years, while the dispersion in profits increases.
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Understanding the processes of rm growth - a closer look at serial growth rate correlation
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TL;DR: This article used a 7-year balanced panel of 10, 000 French manufacturing firms and observed that small firms typically are subject to negative correlation of growth rates, whereas larger firms display positive correlation, and that those small firms that experience extreme positive or negative growth in any one year are unlikely to repeat this performance in the following year.
Exploring the Distribution of Product Quality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the structure of demand by focusing on the distribution of prices within well-defined classes of goods and observe considerable heterogeneity - products that are functionally similar but presumably of dierent "quality" may sell at very dierent prices.
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Is Entrepreneurship a Route Out of Deprivation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether entrepreneurship constitutes a route out of deprivation for those living in deprived areas and found that the benefits of business ownership are found across the wealth distribution.