Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/2398 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Trinity economic paper No. 2000,8
Publisher: 
Trinity College, Department of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
In this paper we provide empirical evidence on the determinants of firm start-up size using data for the manufacturing sector in Ireland, and compare our results with recent findings for Portuguese manufacturing industries (Mata and Machado, 1996). To allow for firm heterogeneity between firm entrants we use quantile regression techniques for our empirical estimation. We find that the determinants of start-up size differ in their importance for small and large-scale entrants. In particular, industry size and industry growth seem to affect largescale entrants only.
Subjects: 
entry
firm start-up size
regression quantiles
Ireland
JEL: 
L11
L60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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