Comparing small business owner and voter beliefs regarding constraints on business growth

IF 1.5 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy Pub Date : 2020-07-15 DOI:10.1108/jepp-03-2020-0012

Trey Malone, Antonios M. Koumpias

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Abstract

Purpose - This research note compares voter opinions regarding small business entrepreneurial activity to opinions of small business owners and links any divergence in perceptions to realized suboptimal entrepreneurial growth policy. Design/methodology/approach - Primary data collection via best–worst scaling and estimation of linear regression models. Findings - Results suggest that small business owners are less concerned about issues such as foreign competition, estate/death taxes, oil prices and labor union demands but are more concerned with domestic competition, income taxes, regulatory burdens and availability of credit from lenders. Social implications - The authors find major discrepancies in opinions about trade policy and business financing, which may lead to policy design that hinders entrepreneurship given evidence that politicians do respond to voters' opinions (Autor Originality/value - It represents the first empirical assessment of differences between voter and small business owner perspectives on entrepreneurial policy. An immediate policy implication includes the need to provide additional avenues of communication of entrepreneurs' concerns.

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比较小企业主和选民对企业增长限制的看法

目的——本研究报告将选民对小企业创业活动的看法与小企业主的看法进行了比较，并将看法上的任何分歧与实现的次优创业增长政策联系起来。设计/方法/方法-通过线性回归模型的最佳-最差缩放和估计收集主要数据。调查结果-结果表明，小企业主不太关心外国竞争、遗产税/死亡税、油价和工会要求等问题，而是更关心国内竞争、所得税、监管负担和贷款人的信贷可用性。社会影响——作者发现在贸易政策和企业融资方面存在重大分歧，鉴于有证据表明政客们确实会回应选民的意见，这可能会导致阻碍创业的政策设计（Autor独创性/价值-这是对选民和小企业主对创业政策看法之间差异的首次实证评估。直接的政策含义包括需要提供更多沟通企业家关切的渠道。

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Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy ECONOMICS-

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3.70

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15.80%

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期刊介绍： Institutions – especially public policies – are a significant determinant of economic outcomes; entrepreneurship and enterprise development are often the channel by which public policies affect economic outcomes, and by which outcomes feed back to the policy process. The Journal of Entrepreneurship & Public Policy (JEPP) was created to encourage and disseminate quality research about these vital relationships. The ultimate aim is to improve the quality of the political discourse about entrepreneurship and development policies. JEPP publishes two issues per year and welcomes: Empirically oriented academic papers and accepts a wide variety of empirical evidence. Generally, the journal considers any analysis based on real-world circumstances and conditions that can change behaviour, legislation, or outcomes, Conceptual or theoretical papers that indicate a direction for future research, or otherwise advance the field of study, A limited number of carefully and accurately executed replication studies, Book reviews. In general, JEPP seeks high-quality articles that say something interesting about the relationships among public policy and entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and economic development, or all three areas. Scope/Coverage: Entrepreneurship, Public policy, Public policies and behaviour of economic agents, Interjurisdictional differentials and their effects, Law and entrepreneurship, New firms; startups, Microeconomic analyses of economic development, Development planning and policy, Innovation and invention: processes and incentives, Regional economic activity: growth, development, and changes, Regional development policy.