Entrepreneurship, Management Services and Economic Growth

Vicente Salas Fumás () and J.Javier Sánchez Asín
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J.Javier Sánchez Asín: Universidad de Zaragoza.

No 601, Working Papers from Departament Empresa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Abstract: We model the joint production of entrepreneurs and workers where the former provide both entrepreneurial (strategic) and managerial (coordination, motivation) services, and management services are shared with individual workers in an output maximizing way. The static equilibrium of the model determines the endogenous share of entrepreneurs in the economy in a given moment of time. The time dynamics of the solution implies that a given growth rate in quality of entrepreneurial services contributes to productivity growth proportionally to the share of entrepreneurs at the start of the period and improvement in quality of entrepreneurial services is convergence enhancing. Model predictions are tested with data from OECD countries in the period 1970-2002. We find that improvements in quality of entrepreneurial services over time explain up to 100% of observed average productivity growth in these countries.

Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2006-01, Revised 2006-01
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Published in Working Papers at the Department of Business, January 2006 pages 1-45

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