Institutional factors, opportunity entrepreneurship and economic growth: Panel data evidence

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 102, Issue , 2016, Pages 45-61

  Aparicio, Sebastian ^a,b   Urbano, David ^a   Audretsch, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Centro de Estudios en Economía Sistémica   (Colombia)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Institutional economics; Latin American countries; Opportunity entrepreneurship; Panel data analysis

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ECONOMIC GROWTHS; INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS; LATIN AMERICANS; OPPORTUNITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP; PANEL DATA ANALYSIS;

ECONOMICS;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENTREPRENEUR; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PANEL DATA;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 84949530197     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.04.006     Document Type: Article

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