from the World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey. We find that better control of corruption promotes entrepreneurship. Our … effect of a particular feature of the institutional landscape, namely corruption, on entrepreneurship. It is expected that … corruption discourages entrepreneurship since it undermines fair competition. We employ two proxies for entrepreneurship that are …

of empirical studies about the relationships among entrepreneurial activity, corruption, commercial freedom, economic …, households, and NPISHs' final consumption expenditure and education on entrepreneurial activity. Corruption, unemployment, age …

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 …

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 …