Ease of Doing Business and Its Implications for Firm Survival in India’s Dynamic Economic Landscape

The main motive of this research is to study the spatial pattern of firm survival in India on manufacturing and service sector (both collectively and individually) firms in context of agglomeration externalities across the different regions of India over the period 1900-2024. It further emphasizes on ease of doing business variable as a main regressor. Our results show that there is spatial dependence across states leading to global tendency of geographical clustering i.e. the states with similar firm survival rates are located close to each other. Our results also indicate that higher score of ease of doing business in a state helps sustain the firms not just within that particular state but also in the neighboring states.