Entrepreneurship Capital and Regional Productivity Revisited
| Autor: | José Luis Massón-Guerra, Ortín-Ángel, P. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Popis: | Entrepreneurship capital has been considered in the literature to be a public good, so it will positively affect a region’s total factor productivity. There is evidence confirming a positive relationship between entrepreneurship capital measures and regional production. This paper argues that the number of firms in a region will be positively related with the regional production in the presence of decreasing returns to scale in firms’ production technology. So if we do not control for the number of firms (and entrepreneurship capital is positively related with the stock of firms) we may be mixing both effects, returns to scale and public goods. This paper provides a methodological benchmark for distinguishing between both effects. The analysis conducted using a sample of 52 Spanish provinces for eleven years suggests major differences and conclusions between methodologies. In our data, previous methods overestimate the effect of regional entrepreneurship capital on the economy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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