Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle

Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 09-032/3

20 Pages Posted: 13 May 2009

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Philipp Koellinger

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Roy Thurik

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Centre for Advanced Small Business Economics (CASBEC); Montpellier Business School; Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM); EIM Netherlands - Business and Policy Research; Tinbergen Institute

Date Written: April 20, 2009

Abstract

We study the cyclical pattern of entrepreneurial activity. Results across 22 OECD countries for the period 1972-2007 show that entrepreneurial activity is a leading indicator of the business cycle in a Granger-causality sense. This contradicts existing theoretical hypotheses which predict that entrepreneurship is pro-cyclical or not cyclical. We discuss possible causes and policy implications of this finding.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Business cycle

JEL Classification: L26, E32

Suggested Citation

Koellinger, Philipp and Thurik, Roy and Thurik, Roy, Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle (April 20, 2009). Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 09-032/3, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1403867 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1403867

Philipp Koellinger (Contact Author)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ( email )

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Roy Thurik

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Centre for Advanced Small Business Economics (CASBEC) ( email )

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