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| Title: | | High-growth entrepreneurial firms in Africa: A quantile regression approach  |
| Authors: | | Goedhuys, Micheline Sleuwaegen, Leo |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Research paper / UNU-WIDER 2009.11 |
| Abstract: | | This paper studies the growth performance of a large set of entrepreneurial firms in ten manufacturing sectors of eleven Sub-Saharan African countries. The focus of the paper is on identifying those entrepreneurs' attributes and firm characteristics that tend to generate a significant number of high-growth firms in these countries. To this end, we use a quantile regression, which provides a more complete estimation of the growth distribution of firms conditional on different attributes. The results indicate that especially firms that engage in product innovation, have their own transport means and are connected to the internet through their own website are characterized by higher growth rates and display a more skewed distribution to the right, hosting a higher number of high-growth firms. |
| Subjects: | | quantile regression high-growth firms firm growth Africa |
| JEL: | | D92 O55 |
| ISBN: | | 978-92-9230-180-4 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Research Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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