Research

Deller, Steven, Tessa Conroy and Philip Watson. (2017) “Women Business Owners: A Source of Stability During the Great Recession?” Applied Economics.
Conroy, Tessa, Steven Deller, and Alexandra Tsvetkova. (2016) “Interstate Relocation of Manufacturers and Business Climate.” Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies.
Conroy, Tessa, Sarah Low, and Stephan Weiler. (2017) “Fueling the Job Engines: The Impact of Small Business Loans on Establishment Births.” Contemporary Economic Policy.
Deller, Steven and Tessa Conroy. (2016) “Business Survival Rates Across the Urban-Rural Divide.“ Community Development.
Conroy, Tessa, Steven Deller, and Alexandra Tsvetkova.“Regional Business Climate and Interstate Manufacturing Relocation Decisions.” Regional Science and Urban Economics.
Conroy, Tessa and Stephan Weiler. “Does gender matter for job creation? Business Ownership and Employment Growth.” Small Business Economics.
Conroy, Tessa and Stephan Weiler. (2015) “Where are the Women Entrepreneurs? Business Ownership Growth Across the Urban Landscape.” Economic Inquiry.
Conroy, Tessa, Harvey Cutler, and Stephan Weiler. (2015). “The State-level Economic Impacts of Enforcing Sales Taxes for E-Retail Purchases.” Growth and Change.

Weiler, Stephan, and Tessa Conroy. “Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Gender.” in Regional Research Frontiers. Springer.

Conroy, Tessa. “The Kids Are Alright: Working Women, Schedule Flexibility, and Child Care.” Invited to revise and resubmit to Regional Studies.
Deller, Steven C., Bjorn Markeson and Tessa Conroy.“Social Capital, Religion, and Small Business Activity. Invited to revise and resubmit to the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Tsvetkova, Alexandra, Jean-Claude Thill, and Tessa Conroy. “Internal and External Knowledge in a High-Technology Industry and its Effects on Firm Performance: Good News or Bad News for Policy-Makers?” Submitted to Research Policy.
Conroy, Tessa and Stephan Weiler.“Local and Social: Entrepreneurship, Networks, and Economic Growth.” Submitted to Small Business Economics.

Conroy, Tessa and Stephan Weiler. “Do as I Do: An Application of Discrete Choice with Social Interactions to Entrepreneurship.”
Deller, Steven and Tessa Conroy. “An Exploratory Analysis of Women Farmers and Rural Economic Growth and Development.”