The Dynamic Effects of Entrepreneurship on Regional Economic Growth: Evidence from Canada

Lukas Matejovsky, Sandeep Mohapatra and Bodo Steiner

Growth and Change, 2014, vol. 45, issue 4, 611-639

Abstract: Facilitating entrepreneurship to address regional income disparity continues to be a major concern of policy makers across the globe. This study explores the temporal pattern of income disparity for Canadian provinces in two estimation steps. First, an econometric growth regression model is applied to identify the impact of entrepreneurship on regional economic growth. The estimation results suggest that entrepreneurship, measured in terms of the self-employment rate, plays a pivotal role in determining regional development in Canada. Second, a dynamic vector autoregression model is employed to simulate long-run regional growth effects that result from policy shocks affecting entrepreneurship. Compared to other growth drivers, entrepreneurship is found to have more pronounced and long-term stimulative effects on regional development for the period of 1987–2007.

Date: 2014
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