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Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin - CESifo - 2007

The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test … requirements are detrimental to entrepreneurship. Second, we test whether corruption reduces the negative impact of regulations on … entrepreneurship in highly regulated economies. Our empirical analysis for a maximum of 43 countries over the period 2003-2005 shows …

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Business Decision-Making under Uncertainty: Evidence from Employment and Number of Businesses

Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - CESifo - 2013

Using the framework provided by the asymmetric-information and real-options theories, we examine the impact of uncertainty on firms’ decisions and market outcomes. We construct alternative measures of uncertainty based on survey of professional forecasters and our estimation of...

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The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Not Just a Matter of Personality

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander; … - CESifo - 2014

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

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Uncertainty and the Employment Dynamics of Small and Large Businesses

Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - CESifo - 2014

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based on the survey of professional forecasters, and regression-based forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate...

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