Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2009
What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies in the last few decades? We study entrepreneurial … policy in a lobbying model taking into account the con.ict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that … use of the Doing Business database, we find, consistent with our theory, evidence that international openness reduces …