Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle: Do New Technology-Based Firms Differ?

Olof Ejermo and Jing Xiao ()
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Jing Xiao: CIRCLE, Lund University and Department of Economic History, Lund University, Sweden, Postal: CIRCLE, Lund University, PO Box 117, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden

No 2013/19, Papers in Innovation Studies from Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research

Abstract: We investigate the relationship between the survival performance of new technologybased firms (NTBFs) over the business cycle and compare them against other entrepreneurial firms. Our data comprise the entire population of entrepreneurial firms entering the Swedish economy from 1991 to 2002, which we follow until 2007. Discrete-time duration models are employed to investigate whether the business cycle impacts differently on the survival likelihood of NTBFs vs. other entrepreneurial firms. Our main findings are three. First, NTBFs generally experience a lower hazard rate compared to other entrepreneurial firms. Second, all entrepreneurial firms are sensitive to, and follow a pro-cyclical pattern of survival likelihood over the business cycle. Three, when comparing NTBFs with firms without self-employees we find that NTBFs are more sensitive to business cycle fluctuations

Keywords: new technology-based firms; exit; survival probability; the business cycle; discrete-time duration models; Sweden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 L25 L26 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2013-05-11
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