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Firm Growth and the Spatial Impact of Geolocated External Factors – Empirical Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Duschl, Matthias; Schimke, Antje; Brenner, Thomas; … - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
In this paper the relationship between firm growth and external knowledge sources, such as related firms and universities, is studied. The spatial characteristics of these relationships are examined by geolocating firms into a more realistic relational space using travel time distances and using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358531
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Industry-specific firm growth and aggolmeration
Duschl, Matthias; Scholl, Tobias; Brenner, Thomas; … - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
This paper studies the industry-specific relationship between industrial clustering and firm growth. Micro-geographically defined agglomeration measures, free of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), are used to study 23 industries. The spatial impacts of agglomeration of related economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141165
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Resource Wealth and Entrepreneurship: A Blessing or a Curse?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
investigate the reasons behind such a significant lag of the resource-rich countries in entrepreneurship. Panel data for more than … 80 countries from 2004-2009 shows that higher dependence on resource rents reduces entrepreneurship activities. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897846
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Can Oil-Rich Countries Encourage Entrepreneurship? ‘Yes’, ‘No’ but not ‘Perhaps’
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014
.e., marginalized entrepreneurship activities. Our panel data analysis of 65 countries from 2004 to 2011 shows a negative and … statistically significant association between oil rents dependency and entrepreneurship indicator. This finding is robust to control … of other major drivers of entrepreneurship, unobservable country and time fixed effects and a different measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897848