Arbeitspapier

Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship?: the impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry

The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test whether regulations robustly deter firm entry into the markets. Our results show that some regulations are indeed important determinants of entrepreneurial activity. Specifically, more procedures required to start a business and larger minimum capital 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 that corruption is beneficial in highly regulated economies. At the maximum level of regulation among our sample of countries, corruption significantly increases entrepreneurial activity. Our results thus provide support for the grease the wheels' hypothesis.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2013

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
International Relations and International Political Economy: Other
New Firms; Startups
Entrepreneurship
Thema
Unternehmensgründung
Unternehmer
Regulierung
Markteintritt
Korruption
Schätzung
Welt

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dreher, Axel
Gassebner, Martin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2007

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dreher, Axel
  • Gassebner, Martin
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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