SocioEconomic Challenges (SEC)
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Item The global crisis, manufacturing firms, regulations and taxes(Sumy State University, 2022) Kaya, H.D.In this study, we focus on how regulations and taxes affect manufacturing firms in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We examine whether overall regulations became a bigger obstacle to these firms after the 2008- 2009 Global crisis. We also examine whether tax inspections became a bigger obstacle after the Global crisis. Besides regulations and tax inspections, we also look into the prevalence of corruption related to tax officials before and after the Global crisis. Using two large datasets (i.e. the BEEPS IV and BEEPS V surveys), we are able to compare the pre-crisis period to the post-crisis period. Our results show that, in this region, post-crisis, senior managers spent more time on dealing with overall regulations which includes tax-related regulations and other types of regulations. Therefore, we can conclude that, post-crisis, regulations became a bigger obstacle to manufacturing firms’ operations. We also find that, post-crisis, there was a significant drop in the percentage of firms that had inspections or meetings with tax officials. Also, post-crisis, each firm on average, had fewer inspections or meetings with tax officials. Therefore, while overall regulations became a bigger obstacle to these firms, tax inspections became a smaller problem. When we examine corruption, we find that there was no significant change in the prevalence of bribes related to tax officials. Before and after the Global crisis, a similar percentage (8-9%) of manufacturing firms had to deal with bribe requests by tax officials. Future studies may focus on other types of regulations which include employment regulations, health and safety regulations, licensing regulations, environmental regulations, and zoning regulations, and the corruption related to these regulations.Item Economic Crises And Entrepreneurship: A Comparison Of Developed And Less Developed Countries(Sumy State University, 2021) Kaya, H.D.This paper examines the change in entrepreneurial activity in developed and less developed countries during the period surrounding the 2008-2009 Global Crisis. The paper also examines how several entrepreneurship-related factors including costs, taxes, number of procedures, legal rights and credit coverage had changed for the two groups of countries after the Global Crisis. For the developed nations, we find that most factors had not significantly changed from the pre-crisis period to the post-crisis period.Item How Does The Use Of Technology In Entrepreneurial Process Affect Firms’ Growth?(Sumy State University, 2021) Kaya, H.D.This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on the issue of how technology use in entrepreneurial process relates to firm performance and business owner’s optimism in U.S. states. We specifically focus on each U.S. state’s success in employing internet as a tool during the startup process, the tax payment process, and the licensing process. We try to answer the following question: “Do the small firms that operate in an internet-friendly state perform better than the small firms that operate in a less internet-friendly state?” We also examine how internet usage affects owners’ outlook for the future. Our results show that the prevalence of internet use for tax payments or for licensing in a state is not related to companies’ performance or their owners’ outlook.Item Government Support, Entrepreneurial Activity and Firm Growth(Sumy State University, 2019) Kaya, H.D.Systematization of the literary sources and ap-proaches for solving the problem of the impact of government support on entrepreneurial activity, growth, and optimism indicates that neither the support of state governments nor the support of local governments has a significant impact on the entrepreneurial activity in that state. However, the results show that both the support of state governments and the support of local governments have a significant impact on firm perfor-mance and owner’s outlook for the future.