Davide Malacrino
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
700 19th Street NW
Washington, DC 20431
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Institutional Affiliation: International Monetary Fund
NBER Working Papers and Publications
September 2018 | Who Creates New Firms When Local Opportunities Arise?
with Shai Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Timothy McQuade: w25112
New firm formation is a critical driver of job creation, and an important contributor to the responsiveness of the economy to aggregate shocks. In this paper we examine the characteristics of the individuals who become entrepreneurs when local opportunities arise due to an increase in local demand. We identify local demand shocks by linking fluctuations in global commodity prices to municipality level agricultural endowments in Brazil. We find that the firm creation response is almost entirely driven by young and skilled individuals, as measured by their level of experience, education, and past occupations involving creativity, problem-solving and managerial roles. In contrast, we find no such response within the same municipalities among skilled, yet older individuals, highlighting the im... |
November 2016 | Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth
with Andreas Fagereng, Luigi Guiso, Luigi Pistaferri: w22822
We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using twenty years of population data from Norway’s administrative tax records. We document a number of novel results. First, in a given cross-section, individuals earn markedly different returns on their assets, with a difference of 500 basis points between the 10th and the 90th percentile. Second, heterogeneity in returns does not arise merely from differences in the allocation of wealth between safe and risky assets: returns are heterogeneous even within asset classes. Third, returns are positively correlated with wealth. Fourth, returns have an individual permanent component that accounts for 60% of the explained variation. Fifth, for wealth below the 95th percentile, the individual permanent component a... |
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