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, assistant professor of finance in the 51精品视频鈥檚 , has been awarded a $220,000 Knowledge Challenge grant from the for "Securing the Gig: Entrepreneurship and the Rise of the Platform Economy,鈥 a joint project with Matthew Denes of Carnegie Mellon University, Margarita Tsoutsoura of Cornell University and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
鈥淭he proposed project will investigate the effect of the gig economy on entrepreneurship using detailed administrative microdata from the Internal Revenue Service,鈥 said Lagaras. 鈥淲e plan to study how the gig economy affects entry into entrepreneurship, nascent firm growth and their sources of capital/funding.鈥
Together with funding from CMU's Block Center for Technology and Society and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, their gig economy research has received nearly $400,000 in funding.
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