We introduce a taxonomy that classifies industries using three criteria: net growth in thenumber of firms; the …

We introduce a taxonomy that classifies industries using three criteria: net growth in the number of firms; the …

industries have experienced long-term expansion in firm numbers while others have experienced a decline. Finally, some industries … are characterized by high rates of both entry and exit while others have low rates of both. A taxonomy classifying … industries according to those three criteria is developed in this paper. The taxonomy is applied to the Iowa subset of the …

of Europe. Iberia and the Atlantic -- Iberian Overseas Expansion and European trade networks -- Domestic Expansion in the …This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the …

of financial development on the entry of new firms and the expansion of successfulnew businesses... …

in compulsory schooling and to explain the timing of this expansion, several areas of research have been reviewed … openness appear to be the most important determinants of the expansion of compulsory schooling. Surprisingly, there is no …

The new institutional economics offers a bold and simple argument for how states promoted commercial expansion in early …; the main contribution of government to commercial expansion is thus supplying the formal framework that reduces certain …