dc.contributor |
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia |
dc.contributor |
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Centre de Recerca en Economia Industrial i Economia Pública |
dc.contributor.author |
Calá, Carla Daniela |
dc.contributor.author |
Manjón Antolín, Miguel C. |
dc.contributor.author |
Arauzo Carod, Josep Maria |
dc.date.accessioned |
2014-07-25T11:38:11Z |
dc.date.available |
2014-07-25T11:38:11Z |
dc.date.created |
2013 |
dc.date.issued |
2014 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2072/238220 |
dc.format.extent |
23 p. |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.publisher |
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia |
dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia;2014-17 |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.rights |
L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
dc.source |
RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya) |
dc.subject.other |
Empreses -- Creació |
dc.subject.other |
Argentina -- Condicions econòmiques |
dc.subject.other |
Economia regional |
dc.subject.other |
Localització industrial |
dc.subject.other |
Països en vies de desenvolupament |
dc.subject.other |
Anàlisi de dades de panel |
dc.subject.other |
Sèries temporals -- Anàlisi |
dc.title |
Regional determinants of firm entry in a developing country |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper |
dc.subject.udc |
332 - Economia regional i territorial. Economia del sòl i de la vivenda |
dc.embargo.terms |
cap |
dc.description.abstract |
We analyse the determinants of firm entry in developing countries using Argentina as
an illustrative case. Our main finding is that although most of the regional determinants used in
previous studies analysing developed countries are also relevant here, there is a need for
additional explanatory variables that proxy for the specificities of developing economies (e.g.,
poverty, informal economy and idle capacity).We also find evidence of a core-periphery pattern
in the spatial structure of entry that seems to be mostly driven by differences in agglomeration
economies. Since regional policies aiming to attract new firms are largely based on evidence
from developed countries, our results raise doubts about the usefulness of such policies when
applied to developing economies.
JEL classification: R12, R30, C33.
Key words: Firm entry, Argentina, count data models. |