Interest in the field of entrepreneurship has significantly increased among academics,
practitioners and government officials in the past decade both in the USA and in Europe …

The present study examines the impact of firm and industry‐specific factors on profitability,
using census data on Greek manufacturing. At the firm level, particular attention is given to …

This paper investigates empirically the effects of institutions on new business formation in
the Italian provinces over the period 2004–12. According to the results, local institutional …

We examine the entry and exit process in the Finnish manufacturing industry using a six
year panel of three-digit industries. The results show that scale economies form a significant …

We discuss that entry can be considered from various levels of analysis: entrepreneur-level,
firm-level, and also at higher levels of aggregation, such as the industry-level and country …

The interdependence between entry and exit of firms into manufacturing industries is the
focus of this research. When both entry and exit equations are estimated separately the …

The paper provides evidence on the role of sunk costs as mobility barriers. An empirical
study of the Austrian manufacturing industry explicitly considers sunk costs related to …

This paper empirically investigates the role of bank structural characteristics on firms'
creation in the Italian local credit markets from 2009 to 2020. By departing from the existing …

This work empirically investigates Italian cooperative banks (BCCs) as a driver of new
business creation in the Italian provinces over the period 2003–12. The results show that the …

The main hypothesis tested in the paper is whether technology is a conduit of productivity
growth for a country that falls behind the frontier. Although the current analysis focuses on a …