A different look at the nexus between entrepreneurship and development using GEM data

Emiliano Alzate and Oscar Claveria
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Emiliano Alzate: University of Barcelona,

No 202309, AQR Working Papers from University of Barcelona, Regional Quantitative Analysis Group

Abstract: We propose a new approach for the visual inspection of the dynamic interplay between several determinants of entrepreneurship and other socioeconomic variables. We focused on the evolution of these variables in 23 countries from 2010 to 2020. First, we ranked the countries according to their growth during the sample period. Second, we clustered the different states by means of a dimensionality-reduction technique that enabled synthesising the ordinal information of the rankings into two dimensions. Finally, countries were projected into a perceptual map according to their scores in both dimensions. We replicated the analysis both for 2020 and for the growth observed during the decade. In both cases, we observed two clusters of countries that roughly correspond to European and Latin American economies. Angola obtained top scores in the two dimensions both in 2020 and during the decade. Regarding the interactions among variables, for 2020 we observed that earlystage entrepreneurship shows a negative association with access to financing and human development. During the decade, we observed a positive link between early-stage entrepreneurship and market dynamism, which in turn showed no connection with human development. These findings somehow suggest that the relative importance of the determinants of entrepreneurship evolved throughout the decade.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; National-level determinants; Institutional environment; Human development; Inequality; Multivariate analysis JEL classification: L26; L53; O43; C38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2023-11, Revised 2023-11
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