Methods of analyzing the relationship between new
business formation and regional development
- Pictured person
- Published
- 2012-11-26
- Number of discussion paper
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2012-064
- keyword(s)
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employment
Entrepreneurship
new business formation
regional development
- abstract
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The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly stress the importance of indirect effects and of accounting for sufficiently long time lags. Finally, I discuss the issue of causality as well as avenues for further research about this important topic.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- L26 - Entrepreneurship ; M13 - New Firms; Startups ; O1 - Economic Development; O18 - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses ; R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes
