index developed by the World Bank in its Doing Business report series. To measure entrepreneurship we use the World Bank … entrepreneurship for an international large sample of countries for a period of six years (2007-2012). The dimensions of country …-level governance at macroeconomic level will be captured by using the following six indicators developed by the World Bank: 1. Voice …

wheels" hypothesis. -- corruption ; start-ups ; grease the wheels ; entrepreneurship ; regulation ; doing business …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 …

regulation we use, we always find a detrimental effect of regulation on entrepreneurship. While women are overall less likely to …"We use two micro data sets that collect harmonized data across countries to investigate the effects of regulation on … start new businesses, in more regulated countries women are pulled into entrepreneurship not to pursue a business …