Necessity or opportunity? Government size, tax policy, corruption, and implications for entrepreneurship

Audretsch, D. B., Belitski, M., Chowdhury, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8526-3544 and Desai, S. (2022) Necessity or opportunity? Government size, tax policy, corruption, and implications for entrepreneurship. Small Business Economics, 58. pp. 2025-2042. ISSN 0921-898X doi: 10.1007/s11187-021-00497-2

Abstract/Summary

Government size, corruption, and tax policy can influence allocation towards necessity or opportunity-driven entrepreneurship. Using a comparative multi-source sample across 52 countries during 2005–2015, we apply a mixed-process estimation of the simultaneously unrelated system of equations and unpack these heterogeneous and complex effects. Interestingly, our results show that the influence of tax policy and corruption on necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship depends on government size. Our results hold for numerous robustness analyses.

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Divisions	Henley Business School > Digitalisation, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Publisher	Springer
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