Recent research has suggested that the reduction of entry regulation can promote firm entry and job creation, but …

the heterogeneity of the effect of entry, contract enforcement regulation, and financial development on both the decision … the level of regulation and financial development and some individual characteristics that are important determinants of … entrepreneurship, such as gender, business skills, and social networks. We find that entry regulation moderates the effect of business …

We study the distortions to industrial organization caused by entry regulation. We take advantage of heterogeneity … affected by country-level entry regulation. In industries with high natural entry barriers, entry regulation has little impact …, countries with high entry regulation have relatively few, large firms. We find no relation between natural entry barriers and …

the United States, is that the heavy regulation of Europe reduces its growth. Using newly assembled data on regulation in … several sectors of many OECD countries, we provide substantial and robust evidence that various measures of regulation in the …

Does entry regulation hinder job creation? We investigate this question in the context of the French retail industry, a … indicate that retail employment could have been more than 10% higher today had entry regulation not been introduced. Promoting …

We present new data on the regulation of entry of start-up firms in 75 countries. The data set contains information on … official costs of entry are extremely high in most countries. Countries with heavier regulation of entry have higher corruption … benevolent regulation, but support the (grabbing hand) view that entry regulation benefits politicians and bureaucrats …