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Implications Of Regional Banking Industry On Regional Business Dynamics, Rowland Filbert
Implications Of Regional Banking Industry On Regional Business Dynamics, Rowland Filbert
Mark A. Israel '91 Endowed Summer Research Fund in Economics
Entrepreneurship and its job creation capacity play an important social function and this study analyzes how the health of a regional banking industry affects these regional business dynamics. Using a panel dataset covering all 50 states and Washington, DC for the period 1977-2014, several key outcome variables were estimated using a fixed effects and instrumental variable regressions. These included net business formation, net job creation, net job creation among continuers, the job creation rate, and employment growth. These were explained by banking variables like return-on-assets and capital-to-assets as well as regional macroeconomic variables like real personal income and housing price …