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The Factors of Growth of Small Family Businesses. A Robust Estimation of the Behavioural Consistency in Panel Data Models

BENÁČEK, V. MICHALÍKOVÁ, E.

Originální název

The Factors of Growth of Small Family Businesses. A Robust Estimation of the Behavioural Consistency in Panel Data Models

Typ

článek v časopise ve Web of Science, Jimp

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

The paper quantifies the role of factors associated with the growth (or decline) of micro and small businesses in European economies. The growth is related to the levels of employment and value added in enterprises, as well as, ten institutional variables. We test the data for consistency of behavioural patterns in various countries and gradually remove outlying observations that can lead to erroneous conclusions when using the classic estimators; this is a quite unique approach in panel data analysis. In the first part of this paper we outline a highly robust method of estimation based on fixed effects and least trimmed squares (LTS). In its second part we apply this method on the panel data of 28 countries in 2002–2008 testing for the hypothesis that micro and small businesses in Europe use different strategies for their growth. We run a series of econometric tests where we regress employment and total net production in micro and small businesses on three economic factors: gross capital returns, labour cost gaps in small relative to large enterprises and GDP per capita. In addition, we test the role of 10 institutional factors in the growth of family businesses.

Klíčová slova

family business, fixed effects, LTS, robust estimator

Autoři

BENÁČEK, V.; MICHALÍKOVÁ, E.

Rok RIV

2015

Vydáno

3. 9. 2015

Nakladatel

Prague University of Economics and Business

Místo

Praha

ISSN

1210-0455

Periodikum

PRAGUE ECON PAP

Ročník

25

Číslo

1

Stát

Česká republika

Strany od

85

Strany do

98

Strany počet

14

URL

http://pep.vse.cz/artkey/pep-201601-0006_the-factors-of-growth-of-small-family-businesses-a-robust-estimation-of-the-behavioural-consistency-in-panel.php

Plný text v Digitální knihovně

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/201067

BibTex

@article{BUT116238,
  author="Vladimír {Benáček} and Eva {Michalíková}",
  title="The Factors of Growth of Small Family Businesses. A Robust Estimation of the Behavioural Consistency in Panel Data Models",
  journal="PRAGUE ECON PAP",
  year="2015",
  volume="25",
  number="1",
  pages="85--98",
  doi="10.18267/j.pep.538",
  issn="1210-0455",
  url="http://pep.vse.cz/artkey/pep-201601-0006_the-factors-of-growth-of-small-family-businesses-a-robust-estimation-of-the-behavioural-consistency-in-panel.php"
}