Research Statement

Visitors to this page may be interested in my Profile page, Job Market Paper, other Research Papers, Teaching Statement (which contains links to downloadable pdfs of my teaching scores), Projects page (which details work that is not yet ready for submission to peer-reviewed journals), and my Job Market Applications page (which provides complete sets of job market packets).

My main research areas are the financing of entrepreneurship and the economics of innovation. My work consists primarily in the application of industrial organization economics and corporate finance to entrepreneurship and business strategy. My work focuses on the use of micro-data in large scale empirical analysis. I seek to base my work on clearly specified underlying theory and believe that my work contains useful theoretical innovation, although the primary value added of my work is usually empirical. My Job Market Paper (How Start-up Firms Innovate) and one published paper ([[Brander Egan Hellmann (2010) - Government Sponsored versus Private Venture Capital|Government-Sponsored versus Private Venture Capital) consider the intersection of innovation and entrepreneurship. My other research, including two papers in the process of submission to peer-reviewed journals and a set of projects currently in development, is split evenly between these two areas.