Utilitarian foundations for limited government are shaky insofar as they assume rational and consistent individuals … on the scope of government intervention. …

entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of …. Our results indicate that entrepreneurial entry is inversely related to the size of the government, and more weakly to the … removed from the sample but unlike the size of government, the results on corruption are not confirmed by country-level fixed …

of labor market institutions and government intervention. In particular, technology change is induced by rigid wage … commodity prices, openness induces the government to subsidize technological innovation in the developed country because …