The COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for rural economies

J Phillipson, M Gorton, R Turner, M Shucksmith… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a rapid assessment of current and likely future impacts of the COVID-19
outbreak on rural economies given their socio-economic characteristics. Drawing principally …

[HTML][HTML] Determinant factors for the development of rural entrepreneurship

F del Olmo-García, I Domínguez-Fabián… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2023 - Elsevier
Promoting rural entrepreneurship provides solutions for depopulation and economic
development. This paper studies the phenomenon of rural entrepreneurial activity in Spain …

Entrepreneurship and urban growth: An empirical assessment with historical mines

EL Glaeser, SP Kerr, WR Kerr - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015 - direct.mit.edu
We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of US cities. Initial entrepreneurship
correlates strongly with urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation …

How does broadband infrastructure promote entrepreneurship in China: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Q Luo, H Hu, D Feng, X He - Telecommunications Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Using the Broadband China strategy as a quasi-natural experiment, our study
attempts to understand how broadband infrastructure (BI) impacts entrepreneurship in …

Nomenclature and harmonised criteria for the self-employment categorisation. An approach pursuant to a systematic review of the literature

M Skrzek-Lubasińska, JM Szaban - European Management Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents the review and discussion of terminology and criteria describing the self-
employment phenomenon. We attempt to give a conceptually and empirically grounded …

State of the field: Data and metrics for geographic analyses of entrepreneurial ecosystems

K Credit, EA Mack, H Mayer - Geography Compass, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Despite burgeoning interest in entrepreneurial ecosystems, there is little information on
metrics for studying the actors and interconnections within these systems. The increasing …

[HTML][HTML] Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets

G Faggio, O Silva - Journal of Urban Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship–
namely business creation and innovation–in urban and rural labour markets. In order to do …

China's anticorruption campaign and entrepreneurship

D Kong, N Qin - The Journal of Law and Economics, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper investigates the causal effect of corruption on entrepreneurship. We use
staggered anticorruption investigations in China as exogenous shocks to conduct difference …

Does telecommunications infrastructure promote entrepreneurship in developing countries? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Y Li, J Zhang, Y Lyu - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2023 - Elsevier
As an essential element of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, telecommunications infrastructure
could effectively stimulate entrepreneurial activity. Based on prefectural city data from 2003 …

Transportation infrastructure and entrepreneurship: Evidence from high-speed railway in China

L Ma, D Niu, W Sun - China Economic Review, 2021 - Elsevier
Using high-speed railway (HSR) construction in China as a quasi-experiment, this paper
contributes to the understanding of how transportation infrastructure affects …