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 … that corruption is beneficial in highly regulated economies. At the maximum level of regulation among our sample of …

We examine whether and under which circumstances World Bank projects and IMF programs affect the likelihood of major … model specification, those of the World Bank are shown to be robust to the choice of control variables and method of … the economy performs better. The (economic) conditions present when a new arrangement is initiated, however, do not affect …

We investigate whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the World Bank … temporary UN Security Council membership and the number of World Bank projects a country receives, even after accounting for … economic and political factors, as well as regional and country effects. The size of World Bank loans, however, is not affected …