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 … 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 … entrepreneurship in highly regulated economies. Our empirical analysis for a maximum of 43 countries over the period 2003-2005 shows …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of corruption in bank lending. Corruption is expected to hamper bank …. Nevertheless the similarities between the consequences for bank lending of law enforcement and corruption are misleading, as they … consider only judiciary corruption. Corruption can also occur in lending and may then be beneficial for bank lending via bribes …