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William R. Kerr

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

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Current Projects

  • With C. Fritz Foley, “US Ethnic Scientists and Foreign Direct Investment Placement.”
  • With Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, “Angel Investments and Entrepreneurial Success.”
  • With Paul Gompers, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein, “Ethnic Entrepreneurial and Venture Capital Ties.”
  • With Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, and Nick Bloom, “Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth.”
  • With Ufuk Akcigit, “Competition and the Quality of Innovations.”
  • With Shihe Fu and Debarshi Nandy, “Agglomeration and Local Finance Bias.” 
  • With William Lincoln and Prachi Mishra, “Globalization and Firm Lobbying.”
  • With Scott Kominers, “Tipping Points and Agglomeration Bubbles.”
  • With Scott Kominers, “The Local Bias of Entrepreneurship.”
  • With Scott Kominers, “The Multiple Worlds of the Eaton-Kortum Model.”
  • With David Autor, Bjorn Brugemann, and Adriana Kugler, “The Joint Effect of Dismissal Costs on Employment and Productivity.”