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<p>Recessions and natural disasters continually slow down the economy. The scale of the effects depends on the origin of the crisis, the response capacity, among other factors. The objective of this article was to study the impact of the recession due to covid-19 on business creation. Using indicators of related and unrelated variety, the industrial diversity of 16 states of Mexico was measured. The main source of information was administrative data. The results show that a region with higher related industrial diversity has greater resilience and more firms. In times of crisis, these results could be used to assess the loss of businesses, given the type and scale of industrial variety.</p>
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Recessions and natural disasters continually slow down the economy. The scale of the effects depends on the origin of the crisis, the response capacity, among other factors. The objective of this article was to study the impact of the recession due to covid-19 on business creation. Using indicators of related and unrelated variety, the industrial diversity of 16 states of Mexico was measured. The main source of information was administrative data. The results show that a region with higher related industrial diversity has greater resilience and more firms. In times of crisis, these results could be used to assess the loss of businesses, given the type and scale of industrial variety.

Industrial Variety, Firms and Resilience

Studies in Business and Economics

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Recessions and natural disasters continually slow down the economy. The scale of the effects depends on the origin of the crisis, the response capacity, among...

Industrial Variety, Firms and Resilience

Publicado en línea: 08 oct 2022

Páginas: 141 - 159

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2022-0030

Palabras clave
Start-ups, Regions, Entropy, Mexico, Covid-19

© 2022 Enrique L. Kato-Vidal, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Industrial Variety, Firms and Resilience

Publicado en línea: 08 oct 2022

Páginas: 141 - 159

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2022-0030

Palabras claveStart-ups, Regions, Entropy, Mexico, Covid-19

© 2022 Enrique L. Kato-Vidal, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
Start-ups, Regions, Entropy, Mexico, Covid-19