Kauffman-RAND Institute Selected Publications
Challenges to Value-Enhancing Innovation in Health Care Delivery: Commonalities and Contrasts with Innovation in Drugs and Devices — 2011
Discusses obstacles to steering innovation in health care toward activities that are worth their social costs and away from other innovative activities and considers drugs, devices, and delivery, with particular attention to delivery.
Does Employer-Based Health Insurance Discourage Entrepreneurship and New Business Creation? — 2011
Raises concerns that the bundling of health insurance and employment may discourage business creation.
Innovations in the Provision of Legal Services in the United States: An Overview for Policymakers — 2011
Discusses innovation's role in the legal services industry, factors affecting innovation's production, and the research and data infrastructure needed by policymakers to understand whether restrictions on the practice of the law should be altered.
Alternative Litigation Financing in the United States: Issues, Knowns, and Unknowns — 2010
Describes the extent and types of alternative litigation financing (ALF) -- also known as ''third-party'' litigation financing -- in the United States as of early 2010 and discusses the legal ethics, social morality, and potential economic effects of ALF.
Is Employer-Based Health Insurance A Barrier To Entrepreneurship? — 2010
Examines whether the focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict business creation.
Catalysts of Entrepreneurship -- Policies for Growth: International Conference on Entrepreneurship — 2009
Presents the proceedings of the first International Conference on Entrepreneurship, which was held at the Indian School of Business on June 5-6, 2009; participants discussed policy issues affecting the growth of entrepreneurship in India.
Innovation in Academe: Federal R&D Funding and the Patenting Activities of U.S. Universities and Colleges — 2009
This report notes the amount of federal research and development funding provided to U.S. colleges and universities by fiscal year and agency, then describes characteristics of academic institutions that have shown a greater propensity to patent.
Does Liability Affect Small Business? — 2008
The authors assess the impact of liability on various small-business firms, using caps on non-economic damages as a measure of liability pressure, comparing the number of small businesses before and after supreme court decisions to strike down caps.
The Economic Burden of Providing Health Insurance: How Much Worse Off Are Small Firms? — 2008
This report explores trends in the economic burden faced by small and large businesses that provide health insurance, as well as the quality of plans that small and large firms offer.
Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis — 2008
Controlling for exit decision factors, this study confirms other reports that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act induced small firms to exit the public capital market.
Is the Economic Burden of Providing Health Insurance Greater for Small Firms Than for Large Firms? — 2008
This research brief reports that, from 2000 to 2005, the economic burden of providing health insurance increased for employers, especially for the smallest firms, and that small firms offered plans of slightly lower quality than did large firms.
Small Business Assistance Programs in the United States: An Analysis of What They Are, How Well They Perform, and How We Can Learn More about Them — 2008
Studies the most important public and private programs designed to promote self-employment and small business creation, examines the existing research on the effect of those programs, and identifies new directions for future research on this topic.
Consumer-Directed Health Plans And Health Savings Accounts: Have They Worked For Small Businesses? — 2007
Examines whether consumer-directed health plans and health savings accounts have worked for small businesses.
A Description and Analysis of Evolving Data Resources on Small Business — 2007
This paper describes the main government and private data sources currently available or under construction for research on small business and entrepreneurship and lists resources researchers can use to gain more information about each data set.
Do Benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley Justify the Costs? Empirical Evidence in the Case of Small Firms — 2007
This research brief summarizes the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on small firms based on a review of studies of relative compliance costs, stock-price reactions, and exit patterns from the public market.
Do the Owners of Small Law Firms Benefit from Limited Liability? — 2007
Examines how the availability of organizing as Limited Liability Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies affected law firms during the period 1993-1999.
In the Name of Entrepreneurship? The Logic and Effects of Special Regulatory Treatment for Small Business — 2007
What are the differential effects of regulation and policy on small businesses? What is the impact of special regulatory treatment for small businesses? This book offers analysis of key public policy issues with implications for small businesses.
Is Special Regulatory Treatment for Small Businesses Working as Intended? — 2007
This research brief summarizes a compilation of studies on several kinds of regulation of small firms and their intended and actual effects, as well as how to ensure that such regulations have the effects intended.
State Health Insurance Mandates, Consumer Directed Health Plans and Health Savings Accounts: Are They a Panacea for Small Businesses? — 2007
Examines the effect of two types of policy initiatives that could have substantial benefits for small business: state health insurance mandates and key components of several others plans that tend to shift costs to the consumer.
The Utilization of Women-Owned Small Businesses in Federal Contracting — 2007
Computations of disparity ratios measuring the underrepresentation of women-owned small businesses in federal contracting, showing that there is significant variation depending on the methodology used and on data limitations.
Are Small Businesses Riskier Than Larger Ones? — 2006
This research brief summarizes research that provides a more complete picture of fatality risks found at both smaller establishments and smaller firms, to help inform effective policies toward small businesses.
Do Small Group Health Insurance Regulations Influence Small Business Growth? — 2006
Examine the effect of small-group insurance reforms on the size of smallbusinesses.
The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: An Overview — 2006
Surveys existing research and the general state of knowledge about the impact of regulation and legislation on small business, focusing on the areas of corporate securities, environmental protection, employment, and health insurance.
Small Businesses and Workplace Fatality Risk: An Exploratory Analysis — 2006
Analyzes the relationship between fatality rate and business size, both in terms of establishment and firm size, from 1992 to 2001.
Summary to WR-300-2-ICJ: Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis — 2006
This summary is based on: Ehud Kamar, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Eric Talley, Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis, RAND WR-300-2-ICJ, 2006.
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