Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School (2006)

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by Laura Alfaro , Andrew Charlton

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@MISC{Alfaro06harvardbusiness,
    author = {Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton},
    title = {Harvard Business School},
    year = {2006}
}

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Abstract

We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has been associated with higher levels of entrepreneurial activity. Our results are robust to using various proxies for entrepreneurial activity such as entry, size, and skewness of the firm-size distribution; controlling for level of economic development, regulation, institutional constraints, and other variables that might affect the business environment; and using different empirical specifications. We further explore various channels through which international financial integration can affect entrepreneurship (a foreign direct investment channel and a capital/credit availability channel) and provide consistent evidence to support our results.

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international financial integration harvard business school entrepreneurial activity foreign direct investment channel unique data set various channel various proxy economic development business environment different empirical specification firm-size distribution consistent evidence suggestive evidence capital credit availability channel institutional constraint