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Greasing the Wheels of Entrepreneurship? The Impact of Regulations and Corruption on Firm Entry
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181356
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The Impact of Teacher Subject Knowledge on Student Achievement: Evidence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Variation
Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2010
Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596573
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The Impact of Entry Regulation on Total Welfare: A Policy Experiment
Liu, An-Hsiang; Siebert, Ralph; Zulehner, Christine - CESifo - 2013
This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a … evidence that the duration of entry regulation has a negative impact on consumer surplus. We also find that entry protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670793
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Two-Sided Markets with Pecuniary and Participation Externalities
Schmidtke, Richard - CESifo - 2006
The existing literature on "two-sided markets" addresses participation externalities, but so far it has neglected pecuniary externalities between competing platforms. In this paper we build a model that incorporates both externalities. In our setup differentiated platforms compete in advertising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196311
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Private Provision of a Complementary Public Good
Schmidtke, Richard - CESifo - 2006
For several years, an increasing number of firms have been investing in Open Source Software (OSS). While improvements in such a non-excludable public good cannot be appropriated, companies can benefit indirectly in a complementary proprietary segment. We study this incentive for investment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406315
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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation
Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - CESifo - 2011
In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024844
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Economic and Political Liberalizations
Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido - CESifo - 2004
This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766014
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Political Regime Change, Economic Reform and Growth Accelerations
Jong-A-Pin, Richard; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2007
Using an improved definition and indicator of growth accelerations, we examine whether political regimes, regime changes, and economic reform are related to growth accelerations. Our results show that economic growth accelerations are preceded by economic reforms. Furthermore, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406021
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Walk the Line: Conflict, State Capacity and the Political Dynamics of Reform
Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - CESifo - 2014
This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform’s initial success having a negative impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743449
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013
opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877680