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 …

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 …

accountability) are shown to promote entrepreneurship, whereby an increase of one standard deviation in these measures increases new …

Many scholars have worried that regulation deters entrepreneurship because larger firms can overcome the costs of …

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 …

We examine the relationship, across 39 countries, between regulation and entrepreneurship using a new two …-equation model. We find the minimum capital requirement required to start a business lowers entrepreneurship rates across countries …