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Dec 5, 2007

State Insurance Mandates and Consumer-Directed Health Plans: Are They Helping Small Business Provide Health Insurance to Employees?

This research brief describes the effects of state health-insurance mandates and consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) on the access to and affordability of health insurance for small businesses.

Susan M. Gates, Kristin J. Leuschner
Dec 4, 2007

Is Special Regulatory Treatment for Small Businesses Working as Intended?

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.

Susan M. Gates, Kristin J. Leuschner
Nov 28, 2007

Do Benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley Justify the Costs? Empirical Evidence in the Case of Small Firms

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.

Susan M. Gates, Kristin J. Leuschner
Oct 22, 2007

Consumer-Directed Health Plans And Health Savings Accounts: Have They Worked For Small Businesses?

Examines whether consumer-directed health plans and health savings accounts have worked for small businesses.

Susan M. Gates, Kanika Kapur, Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Oct 19, 2007

In the Name of Entrepreneurship? The Logic and Effects of Special Regulatory Treatment for Small Business

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.

Susan M. Gates, Kristin J. Leuschner
Sep 26, 2007

A Description and Analysis of Evolving Data Resources on Small Business

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.

Amelia Haviland, Bogdan Savych
Sep 17, 2007

Do the Owners of Small Law Firms Benefit from Limited Liability?

Examines how the availability of organizing as Limited Liability Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies affected law firms during the period 1993-1999.

John A. Romley, Eric Talley, Bogdan Savych
Aug 23, 2007

State Health Insurance Mandates, Consumer Directed Health Plans and Health Savings Accounts: Are They a Panacea for Small Businesses?

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.

Susan M. Gates, Kanika Kapur, Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Jul 5, 2007

Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-up Costs

This paper studies the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy.

Raquel Fonseca Benito, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Thepthida Sopraseuth
Jun 12, 2007

Improving the Department of Defense's Small Business Innovation Research Program: Addendum

Document submitted on June 12, 2007 as an addendum to testimony before the House Science and Technology Committee, Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation on April 26, 2007.

Bruce Held
Jun 5, 2007

Measuring the Use of Women-Owned Small Businesses in Federal Contracting

This research brief summarizes a RAND assessment of disparity ratios for women-owned small businesses to determine whether those businesses receive federal contracts in proportion to their representation in given industries.

Elaine Reardon, Nancy Nicosia, Nancy Young Moore
Apr 26, 2007

Improving the Department of Defense's Small Business Innovation Research Program

Testimony presented before the House Science and Technology Committee, Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation on April 26, 2007.

Bruce Held

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