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The World Bank's new series of Doing Business reports attempt to measure the relative ease of doing business in countries around the world. The output of this research is a set of rankings that enable each country to see how it looks relative to the others from the point of view of private...
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necessity entrepreneurship (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, 2004). The analysis refers to period 2004-2009 and takes into … nations (Djankov et.al., 2006) can also be attributed to direct measures of entrepreneurship and can be also grasped also in a … and Study on Entrepreneurship in Europe by Gallup for the European Commission. Single-linkage clustering will serve as a …
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The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...
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Recent studies document a 30-year decline in various measures of entrepreneurship in the United States. In contrast … mitigated several hurdles to entrepreneurship. …
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Rostam-Afschar (2014) analyzes the impact of the deregulation of the German Trade and Crafts Code of 2004 on entrepreneurial activity, using German microcensus (MC) data. He finds a positive effect on market entry and self-employment and no change in exit probabilities. As these results...
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The regulatory and institutional environment of a nation plays a critical role in shaping the level of entrepreneurship …
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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 international market integration leads to more...
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The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...
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This paper investigates the effect of business regulations on various measures of entrepreneurship. Using data for a … sample of countries participation in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 and 2005, we estimate a two …-equation model explaining the nascent and the actual entrepreneurship rate, while taking into account the interrelationship between …
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-seeking governments. -- Entrepreneurship ; Regulation ; Innovation ; Market Integration ; Lobbying …
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