 Credit Constraints, Entrepreneurial Talent, and Economic DevelopmentPost-Print from HAL Abstract: In this paper, we formalize the view that economic development requires high rates of productive entrepreneurship, and this requires an efficient matching between entrepreneurial talent and production technologies. We first explore the role of financial development in promoting such efficient allocation of talent, which results in higher production, job creation, and social mobility. We then show how different levels of financial development may endogenously arise in a setting in which financial constraints depend on individual incentives to misbehave, these incentives depend on how many jobs are available, and this in turn depends on the level of financial development. Such complementarity between labor market and financial market development may generate highly divergent development paths even for countries with very similar initial conditions. Keywords: Allocation of entrepreneurial talent; Credit constraints; Economic development; Productive and unproductive entrepreneurs (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Small Business Economics, 2010, 34 (1), pp.93-104. ⟨10.1007/s11187-009-9197-3⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00754484 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9197-3 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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