TY  - JOUR
AU  - Glaeser, Edward L
AU  - Rosenthal, Stuart S
AU  - Strange, William C
TI  - Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15536
PY  - 2009
Y2  - November 2009
DO  - 10.3386/w15536
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15536
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15536.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Edward L. Glaeser
Department of Economics
315A Littauer Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-0575
Fax: 617/495-7730
E-Mail: eglaeser@harvard.edu

Stuart Rosenthal
Syracuse University
Department of Economics
426 Eggers Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244-1020
Tel: 315-443-3809
Fax: 315-443-1081
E-Mail: ssrosent@maxwell.syr.edu

William Strange
Rotman School of Management
University of Toronto
105 St. George St.
Toronto, ON M5S3E6
CANADA
Tel: 4169781949
Fax: 4169785433
E-Mail: wstrange@rotman.utoronto.ca
M1  - published as Edward L. Glaeser, Stuart S. Rosenthal, William C, Strange. "Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship," in Edward L. Glaeser, Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange, organizers, "Cities and Entrepreneurship" Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 67, no. 1 (2010)

AB  - Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation.  The local environment influences the choices of entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial success influences the local economy.  Yet modern urban economics has paid relatively little attention to entrepreneurs.  This essay introduces a special issue of Journal of Urban Economics dedicated to the geography of entrepreneurship.  The paper frames the core questions facing researchers interested in assessing the local causes and consequences of entrepreneurship, perturbs a core urban model to incorporate entrepreneurship, and concludes by offering an agenda for future work on the spatial aspects of entrepreneurship.
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