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Federal Credit Programs and Local Economic Performance
Shaffer, Sherrill; Collender, Robert N. - In: Economic Development Quarterly 23 (2009) 1, pp. 28-43
Several theories of externalities and asymmetric information suggest a positive role for government programs to assist credit markets, though potential distortions by special interests carry attendant dangers. The authors examine the empirical association between funding by several federal...
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New Small Firms and Dimensions of Economic Performance
Shaffer, Sherrill; Hasan, Iftekhar; Zhou, Mingming - In: Economic Development Quarterly 29 (2015) 1, pp. 65-78
small firms and multiple economic outcomes including levels, growth rates, and volatilities of income and employment. The …
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What Does "Entrepreneurship" Data Really Show? A Comparison of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and World Bank Group Datasets
Acs, Zoltan J.; Desai, Sameeksha; Klapper, Leora F. - 2012
This paper compares two datasets designed to measure entrepreneurship. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor dataset … captures early-stage entrepreneurial activity; the World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey dataset captures formal business … greater levels of early-stage entrepreneurship in developing economies than do the World Bank data. The World Bank data tend …
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High-Tech Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the United States
Hart, David M.; Acs, Zoltan J. - In: Economic Development Quarterly 25 (2011) 2, pp. 116-129
This article reports the results of a national survey that estimates the rate of immigrant entrepreneurship in a …
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