Alex Coad
@coad
An editor at Research Policy & Small Business Economics Prof at Waseda Business School, Tokyo
What are the chances that Milei (Argentina's Trump) negotiated a deal for Argentina? Put differently, given FIFA's open corruption, it'd be surprising if he did NOT try this. This is how I see Argentina's many "miraculous" comebacks, e.g. against Egypt... www.republicworld.com/sports/footb...
Weird: as a journal editor, I received a submission that cites a fake (but plausible-sounding) paper that I supposedly wrote in 2018! #AIslop #AIhallucination #EconSky
Also, the inefficiency of the US banking sector seems to be driving interest in crypto, to avoid banking/transaction fees www.security.org/digital-secu... This seems less relevant for non-US countries
Conjecture: Whatever your definition of “good”, a good bottle of whisky is cheaper than two good bottles of wine
Yes, it's fascinating! The USA might be an outlier. In a follow-up paper for 1950-2010, the unit cost of finance seems to fall over time for other countries (FR, DE, IT, JP) but not for US. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Relatedly, Philippon shows how the unit cost of intermediation in the USA stays at 1.5-2% of intermediated assets, and hasn't decreased over the period 1886-2012 dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer....
Learning Japanese hurts my eyes: in my ~A4 textbook, you need to distinguish markings with a size of about a hundredth of a centimeter...
The book is now online! While logged in at your university, if you go here and click on "Download book PDF", you can freely download the book PDF: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
📖 Excited to be checking the proofs for my new book: "Data Science MBA: Big Data, Digitalization, and Strategy; with applications in R" Published by Springer Coming out before the end of 2025! If your library has a deal with Springer, it will be free to download the PDF
This is reminiscent of previous findings of a negative relationship between Self-Employment and GDP per capita: Henrekson & Sanandaji: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
ICYMI fascinating evidence from Ashraf et al: "The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development" Maximizing the number of female entrepreneurs could be the wrong policy target! 🧵...
These two time series do NOT have the same degree of persistence! #EconSky #EntrepreneurialEcosystems
The authors attempt to replicate our paper using three datasets, but we argue that none of the three is suitable for the task...
📢 Out now! Open Access Coad A., @stjepan-srhoj.bsky.social , (2025). "Entrepreneurial ecosystems and the persistence of regional high-growth firm shares: A reply to van Dijk, Leendertse, Stam, and van Rijnsoever (2025)." Research Policy, forthcoming. doi.org/10.1016/j.re... 🧵
📢📢 SBEJ 4th Online Conference for Early Career Researchers @Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal Friday December 5, 2025, 1pm (London, UK time). Submit your 3-page abstract by Sunday 9th Nov. 🔗 Submit & register here: bit.ly/SBEJ-ECR #Econsky #entrepreneurship
Paper #5 @coad.bsky.social , Domnick, C., Santoleri, P., @stjepan-srhoj.bsky.social Does Africa need entrepreneurial ecosystems thinking? doi.org/10.1007/s109...
📢📢 Now out! JTT SI on "Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems" w/ Clemens Domnick, Pietro Santoleri, and @stjepan-srhoj.bsky.social Link to our SI Editorial: doi.org/10.1007/s109... Full-text view-only version: rdcu.be/eBOHy 6 papers were in the SI 🧵
This paper takes a broad view: motivations, incentives, attitudes to promotion & authority, culture, reinventing one's identity as entrepreneur, characteristics of the knowledge base, problem-solving approaches, management practices, ... and even a bit of game theory!
📢 New(ish) in JTT [Open Access]: "“The company I keep is not corporate enough”: exploring the specificities of University startups" link.springer.com/article/10.1... If univ. startups have the best scientific knowledge, & big support from universities, why do they often underperform? #EconSky