According to a new study released Wednesday by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, new-business creation in the United States is remarkably constant over time. Exploring Firm Formation: Why Is the Number of New Firms Constant? reveals that none of the factors that might bear on prospective entrepreneurs' decisions to form new companies-recessions, expansions, tax changes, population growth, scarce or abundant capital, technological advances or others-has much impact on the pace of U.S. startups.

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