We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near cities led to specialization in industries, like steel, with...

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...

The present paper deals with the perceptions about market conditions and public policies related to enhance entrepreneurial activities at regional levels. This is the first academic research at regional level in Chile and one of the few in Latin America to study this issue. The main results seem...

Using subnational historical data, this paper establishes the within country persistence of economic activity in the New World over the last half millennium, a period including the trauma of the European colonization, the decimation of the native populations, and the imposition of potentially...

Interest in analyzing the dynamics of the Great Recession among regional economists has largely focused on ‘regional resilience.’ This concept, while still not fully formed, considers the relationship between regional characteristics and the regional response to economic shocks, particularly...

We investigate the impact of manufacturing employment growth on the non-tradable sector for prefecture-level cities in China. Using the 2000 and 2010 Censuses of Population, we apply the shift-share approach to isolate the exogenous change of employment growth in manufacturing. We find that...

This paper which is a sequence of previous works (Lemos e Diniz, 2000 and Diniz, 1993) attempts to analyze in an introductory and comparative way the aggregate competitiveness of the major Brazilian metropolitan areas. It is theoretically based on two fundamental concepts of urban economics:...

This paper advances the hypothesis that persistent inequality affects cultural traits and undermines social capital. We use blood donation data at the local level in Southern Spain to document that, indeed, persistent inequality – as measured by land inequality – negatively affects blood...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between social and economic factors on the economic loss and number of victims of natural disaster occurring in Indonesia using a data set from 2004 to 2008 that consists 385 natural disaster events. The socio-economic factors used in this...

Existing studies have often failed to find positive impacts of horizontal FDI on domestic firms. We argue that the two effects underpinning the impacts of horizontal FDI (i.e., the positive spillover effect and the negative competition effect) have different degrees of attenuation with distance....