relationship between regulation, firm dynamics and entrepreneurship. We identify some foundational considerations relevant to this …Entrepreneurship can have important positive effects linked to job creation, wealth and income generation, innovation … mechanism through which entrepreneurship can be encouraged, grown and its economic benefits harnessed. The effect of regulatory …

This dissertation analyzes how government regulations can affect entrepreneurship and small business performance. In my … first essay, I focus on the relationships between occupational licensing regulation and key business outcomes. In the second … whether there is a link between state franchise relationship regulation aimed at preventing franchisor opportunism and the …

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

entrepreneurship are responsible for the conflicting results. However, when we allow the impact of regulation on the startup rate to … seemingly contradictory conclusions. When measuring business activity with traditional measures of entrepreneurship (i.e., firm … entrepreneurship. Others, however, fail to find a significant association between regulatory accumulation and startup business activity …

entrepreneurship for an international large sample of countries for a period of six years (2007-2012). The dimensions of country … index developed by the World Bank in its Doing Business report series. To measure entrepreneurship we use the World Bank … Group Entrepreneurship Survey where the number of new registered businesses, as a percentage of the working age population …

The relationship between institutional quality, entrepreneurship, and economic growth has been well documented within … exist between the US states and empirically evaluate how this affects entrepreneurship. Overall, the results suggest that … method of selecting the chief justice of a state court of last resort would also appear to have an impact on entrepreneurship …

Regulations can create economic rents for incumbents at the expense of new entrants, thereby limiting entrepreneurship … in entrepreneurship and income inequality. Results show that there is a negative association between barriers to starting …

. Similar, but weaker effects are found for the other occupational groups. -- Entrepreneuship ; Regulation ; Firm entry …