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Necessity or Opportunity? Government Size, Tax Policy, Corruption and Implications for Entrepreneurship

Chowdhury, F.

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Government size, corruption, and tax policy influence individuals' motivation 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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Chowdhury, F. (2022). Necessity or Opportunity? Government Size, Tax Policy, Corruption and Implications for Entrepreneurship. Small Business Economics, 58(4), 2025-2042. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00497-2

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 9, 2021
Online Publication Date Jun 22, 2021
Publication Date 2022-04
Deposit Date Apr 19, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Small Business Economics
Print ISSN 0921-898X
Electronic ISSN 1573-0913
Publisher Springer
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 58
Issue 4
Pages 2025-2042
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00497-2
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1277132

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