Chapter
Modelling Firm Failure: Towards Building a Firmographic Microsimulation Model
Abstract
This paper analyzes the survival and failure of small and medium (SME) size business establishments in the city of Hamilton, Canada. The objective is to develop a business failure module that will be used in the construction of an agent-based firmographic simulation model. Such model will be utilized within a microsimulation land use and transportation planning support system (PSS). A longitudinal database is extracted from Statistics Canada …
Authors
Maoh H; Kanaroglou P
Book title
Employment Location in Cities and Regions
Series
Advances in Spatial Science
Pagination
pp. 243-261
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
2013
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-31779-8_12