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The Kauffman-RAND Institute for Entrepreneurship Public Policy

Studying the way legal and regulatory policymaking affect small businesses and entrepreneurship

The Kauffman-RAND Institute for Entrepreneurship Public Policy is dedicated to assessing and improving legal and regulatory policymaking as it relates to small businesses and entrepreneurship in a wide range of settings, including corporate governance, employment law, consumer law, securities regulation and business ethics.

The Institute was founded in 2004 (as the Kaufman-RAND Center for Regulation and Small Business) with funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Institute research seeks to:

  • Examine the effects of a wide range of public policies and other forces on small businesses and entrepreneurs.
  • Measure the effect of public policies on small businesses, job growth and economic activity.
  • Identify approaches that achieve policy goals while limiting unintended negative consequences for entrepreneurship.

Partnership

RAND is partnering with The Legatum Institute, which publishes the annual Legatum Prosperity Index, and the Indian School of Business (ISB), ranked in top 15 globally in business education, to host a unique, path-breaking conference on the role of public policy at the central and state levels on Indian entrepreneurship. Through panels, presentations, and discussion forums, the conference titled, "Catalysts of Entrepreneurship: Policies for Growth," will address how entrepreneurship can transform sectors such as infrastructure and education into engines of growth, and the policies needed to support this transformation.

Featured News

KRI Director Susan Gates Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer

Susan Gates, Director of Kauffman-RAND Institute for Entrepreneurship Public Policy, was quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer's recent article, "Universal health care could boost economy: Coverage through employers, economists argue, hinders the creation of enterprise." Dr. Gates' discusses the phenomenon of "entrepreneurship lock" in connection with her research findings in "Is Employer-based Health Care Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?"

Highlighted Publications

Is Employer-based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?

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Rob Fairlie, Kanika Kapur, Susan Gates

Are Women-Owned Small Businesses Underrepresented in Federal Contracting?

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Elaine Reardon

Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis

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Ehud Kamar, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Eric Talley

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