We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …

countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone Habsburg border have been sharing common formal institutions for a century … Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …

countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone Habsburg border have been sharing common formal institutions for a century … Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …

Both theoretical and empirical studies have shown that democracy and corruption have substantial influence on … environmental policy. In this paper, we empirically analyse whether both democracy and corruption are equally important determinants …. When these variables are jointly included as explanatory variables, we find that corruption stands out as an important …

institutions for over 90 years now. In border specifications that restrict identification to individuals living inside a restricted … band around the former border, we find that historical Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption …-state interactions more generally, but not in interpersonal interactions. Past formal institutions can leave a legacy through cultural …

positions. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more …In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even if they have democratic … high corruption levels. Our model is based on the fact that corrupt offcials have to pay an entry fee to get lucrative …

institutions such as corruption, which become visible in the entrepreneurial process. This research analyzes the scientific … think that in recent years there is a special interest in the influence of corruption and regulation on entrepreneurship. … evolution in relation to the influence of corruption and regulation in the entrepreneurial activity according to the economic …

entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of …-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … extent of corruption. A cluster of institutional indicators representing 'market freedom' is only significant in some …

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 …

a resource boom reinforces rent grabbing and civil conflict especially if institutions are bad, induces corruption … and bad growth prospects, and that these adverse effects are more severe in volatile countries with bad institutions and … lack of rule of law, corruption, presidential democracies, and underdeveloped financial systems. Another hypothesis is that …