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State Bankruptcy Law and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Border Analysis
Ross, Amanda; Rohlin, Shawn - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This paper examines how differences in state bankruptcy laws, specifically the amount of the homestead exemption, affect business location decisions. We expand upon the literature by narrowing the geographic scope and focus on the amount of entrepreneurial activity within a few miles of the...
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Market Size, Productivity and Entrepreneurship in a Model a'la Melitz
Pokrovsky, Dmitry - European Regional Science Association - 2013
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TOP TEAM DEMOGRAPHICS, INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: FINDINGS FROM ENGLISH FIRMS AND CITIES, 2008-9
Nathan, Max - European Regional Science Association - 2013
High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...
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Regional Transitions from Socialism to Entrepreneurship: Russia and Germany compared
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael; … - European Regional Science Association - 2014
in the process of transition to a market-type economy. In this comparison entrepreneurship in West Germany is used as a … entrepreneurship and determinants of the decision to be self-employed in these two countries and their regions. While a number of …,et al.,2008). There is, however,hardly evidence on the dynamics of entrepreneurship in detail and with comparison to other …
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Do Market-Based Tax Incentives Attract New Businesses? Evidence from the New Markets Tax Credit
Ross, Amanda; Wolf, Kaitlyn - European Regional Science Association - 2014
Policy makers at all levels of government believe that one of the key drivers of local economic growth is new businesses. Therefore, governments design policy with the intention of attracting businesses with the hopes that this will create future growth in struggling areas. Over the past few...
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?Green economy? and spatial development of remote northern regions
Shevchuk, Igor; Zhirnel, Evgeny - European Regional Science Association - 2014
Spatial development in remote areas is associated with a number of problems and hindrances, the main ones being the difficult demographic situation and poor infrastructure. By introducing "green" technologies one can begin to overcome infrastructural limitations, develop the economy and the...
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Starting a rural business in an ageing society, a UK ? NL case study
Delfmann, Heike - European Regional Science Association - 2014
start a social enterprise. A key step in gaining further insights into entrepreneurship in these areas is developing a …
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The entrepreneurial performance of the Central and Eastern European regions
Páger, Balázs - European Regional Science Association - 2014
The theoretical concepts about entrepreneurship have changed since the last three decades. It has become one of the … economy (Audretsch and Thurik 2001), it can be seen clearly those shifts which contributed to become entrepreneurship an … continue their economic activity. The entrepreneurship is influenced by those negative and positive factors (for example other …
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