This article tackles one central issue in the regional science literature: the persistence of regional disparities in unemployment within national economies. Our approach is original as Okun’s coefficients are estimated for each of the 22 administrative French regions over the period...

This paper deals with the determinants of enterprise creation in the 22 French regions from 1994 to 2003. We then estimate a dynamic panel data model which allows spatial heterogeneity to be modelled and which is compared with a specification without spatial heterogeneity. The estimation results...

Cet article cherche à évaluer les déterminants de la dynamique entrepreneuriale dans les régions françaises pour la période 1993-2004. On estime dans ce but un modèle dynamique de panel par la méthode de Blundell et Bond (1998) pour expliquer le taux de création d'entreprise (rapporté...

This article tackles one central issue in the regional science literature: the persistence of regional disparities in unemployment within national economies. Our approach is original as Okun's coefficients are estimated for each of the 22 administrative French regions over the period 1990-2008,...

This research aims at appraising the determinants of entrepreneurship dynamism in the French administrative regions over the period 1993-2004. First, we highlight how the regional territory may be considered under a double dimension in order to explain the differentials between the regional...

<Para ID="Par1">This paper investigates the determinants of business start-ups in the 22 French regions, considering four different sectors (industry, real estate, trade and services) over 1995–2004. The main innovation of the paper was to analyze regional differences in the decision to start a new business...</para>

This article tackles one central issue in the regional science literature: the persistence of regional disparities in unemployment within national economies. Our approach is original as Okun's coefficients are estimated for each of the 22 administrative French regions over the period 1990-2008,...