University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Small Firms in the U.S. Economy, Three Essays
Abstract
dc:descriptionThis thesis studies the characteristics of small firms in the US using data from the Survey of Small Business Finances (SSBF). The first chapter examines how the owners of small firms use decisions about legal organization, firm size, capital structure, and owner investment in the firm to manage firm risk and also finds the return on assets to be described as a very risky undertaking with high upside gain. The second chapter constructs a dynamic, computable model with heterogeneous agents and endogenous default in which entrepreneurs weigh a firm's current and future returns and uses it to match the SSBF data. The third chapter uses the cross-section of data contained in the same survey to estimate the survival probabilities of small firms both along their life-cycle and the business cycle.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Economics
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Herranz Gonzalez, Maria De Las Nieves
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Stefan Krasa
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3392066
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85599