Showing papers by "Sameeksha Desai published in 2017"
TL;DR: The choice of entrepreneurship measures is critically important, impacting the diagnosis, analysis, projection, and understanding of potential and existing policy as mentioned in this paper, and gaining better insight into the challenges of measuring entrepreneurship is a necessary and productive investment for policymakers.
Abstract: Policymakers rely on entrepreneurs to create jobs, provide incomes, innovate, pay taxes to support public revenues, create competition in industries, and much more. Due to its highly heterogeneous nature, the choice of entrepreneurship measures is critically important, impacting the diagnosis, analysis, projection, and understanding of potential and existing policy. Some key aspects to measure include the how (self-employment, new firm formation), why (necessity, opportunity), and what (growth). As such, gaining better insight into the challenges of measuring entrepreneurship is a necessary and productive investment for policymakers.
16 citations
01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: This paper examined the influence of institutional conditions (formal and informal) as well as firm age, firm size, and other characteristics on country-level export performance in 26 transition economies.
Abstract: This chapter examines the influence of institutional conditions—formal and informal—as well as firm age, firm size, and other characteristics on country-level export performance in 26 transition economies. A two-step empirical strategy first identifies clusters of explanatory variables and, second, applies GLS panel estimations to test for the influence of explanatory and control variables on export performance. Results show that quality of formal institutions does not directly influence export performance, but that problematic informal institutions actually improve export performance. This could be because unfavorable home country conditions could motivate firms to seek outside markets. Surprisingly, findings also show average firm size does not explain export performance. Finally, overall younger firm age is found to improve exports but to a threshold, after which export performance suffers as average firm age rises.
10 citations
TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of some of the key questions in this regard, and particularly with respect to cities, and outline several priorities for future research, including the importance of spatial and local dimensions of terrorism in understanding the nature and magnitude of economic effects.
Abstract: The economic effects of terrorist attacks are difficult to assess, in part because terrorism is highly local. Local dimensions are crucial for policymakers who are increasingly interested in resilience to terrorism, yet they have a very small body of scholarship from which to derive operationally relevant guidance. Spatial and local dimensions of terrorism are central to understanding the nature and magnitude of economic effects. This paper provides an overview of some of the key questions in this regard, and particularly with respect to cities, and outlines several priorities for future research.
7 citations
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