The impact of firm entry regulation on long-living entrants

Small Business Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-76

  Prantl, Susanne ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Firm entry regulation; Firm size; Self employment; Sustained entry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860358536     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-010-9293-4     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Aghion, P., Blundell, R., Griffith, R., Howitt, P., & Prantl, S. (2004). Entry and productivity growth: Evidence from micro-level panel data. Journal of the European Economic Association, 2(2-3), 265-276.
2. Aghion, P., Blundell, R., Griffith, R., Howitt, P., & Prantl, S. (2009). The effects of entry on incumbent innovation and productivity. Review of Economics and Statistics, 91(1), 20-32.
3. Ai, C., & Norton, E. C. (2003). Interaction terms in logit and probit models. Economics Letters, 80(1), 123-129.
4. Angrist, J. D., & Pischke, J.-St. (2009). Mostly harmless econometrics: An empiricist's companion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
5. Ardagna, S., & Lusardi, A. (2010). Explaining international differences in entrepreneurship: The role of individual characteristics and regulatory constraints. In J. Lerner & A. Schoar (Eds.), International differences in entrepreneurship. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
6. Audretsch, D. B. (1995). Innovation and industry evolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
7. Belleflamme, P., & Peitz, M. (2010). Industrial organization: Markets and strategies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
8. Bertrand, M., & Kramarz, F. (2002). Does entry regulation hinder job creation? Evidence from the French retail industry. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117(4), 1369-1413.
9. Bertrand, M., Schoar, A., & Thesmar, D. (2007). Banking deregulation and industry structure: Evidence from the French banking reforms of 1985. Journal of Finance, 62(2), 597-628.
10. Blundell, R., & Costa Dias, M. (2009). Alternative approaches to evaluation in empirical microeconomics. Journal of Human Resources, 44(3), 565-640.
11. Blundell, R., & MaCurdy, T. (1999). Labour supply: A review of alternative approaches. In O. Ashenfelter, D. Card (Eds.), Handbook of labor economics (Vol. 3, pp. 1559-1695). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier.
12. Bruhn, M. (2008). License to sell: The effect of business registration reform on entrepreneurial activity in Mexico. Review of Economics and Statistics. doi: 10. 1596/1813-9450-4538.
13. Capelleras, J.-L., Mole, K. F., Greene, F. J., & Storey, D. J. (2008). Do more heavily regulated economies have poorer performing new ventures? Evidence from Britain and Spain. Journal of International Business Studies, 39(4), 688-704.
14. Caves, R. E. (1998). Industrial organization and new findings on the turnover and mobility of firms. Journal of Economic Literature, 36(4), 1947-1982.
15. Cetorelli, N., & Strahan, P. E. (2006). Finance as a barrier to entry: Bank competition and industry structure in local US markets. Journal of Finance, 61(1), 437-461.
16. Chari, A. V. (2009). Identifying the aggregate productivity effects of entry and size restrictions: An empirical analysis of license reform in India. Mimeo, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.
17. Ciccone, A., & Papaioannou, E. (2007). Red tape and delayed entry. Journal of the European Economic Association, 5(2-3), 444-458.
18. Deregulierungskommission (1991). Marktöffnung und Wettbewerb. Gutachten der Unabhängigen Expertenkommission zum Abbau marktwidriger Regulierungen. Stuttgart, Germany.
19. Dixit, A. K., & Stiglitz, J. E. (1977). Monopolistic competition and optimum product diversity. American Economic Review, 67(3), 297-308.
20. Djankov, S. (2009). The regulation of entry: A survey. World Bank Research Observer, 24(2), 183-203.
21. Djankov, S., La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., & Shleifer, A. (2002). The regulation of entry. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117(1), 1-37.
22. Fisman, R., & Sarria-Allende, V. (2004). Regulation of Entry and the Distortion of Industrial Organization. NBER Working Paper No. 10929. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
23. Foster, L., Haltiwanger, J., & Syverson, C. (2008). Reallocation, firm turnover, and efficiency: Selection on productivity or profitability? American Economic Review, 98(1), 394-425.
24. Foster, L., Haltiwanger, J., & Syverson, C. (2009). The slow growth of new plants: learning about demand? Mimeo, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Booth.
25. Geroski, P. A. (1995). What do we know about entry? International Journal of Industrial Organization, 13(4), 421-440.
26. Gesetz über die Inkraftsetzung des Gesetzes zur Ordnung des Handwerks der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik vom 10. Juli 1990. http://www. drkoerner. net/DDwz/ighwo90. htm. Accessed 19 May 2010.
27. Gesetz zu dem Vertrag vom 31. 08. 1990 zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik über die Herstellung der Einheit Deutschlands -Einigungsvertragsgesetz - und der Vereinbarung vom 18. 09. 1990, Bundesgesetzblatt, 1990 (II, 35), 885-1248.
28. Gesetz zur Ordnung des Handwerks (Handswerksordnung) in der Fassung vom 28. 12. 1965, Bundesgesetzblatt, 1966 (I, 1), 1-33.
29. Harhoff, D., & Kane, T. J. (1997). Is the German apprenticeship system a panacea for the U. S. labor market? Journal of Population Economics, 10(2), 171-196.
30. Kaplan, D. S., Piedra, E., & Seira, E. (2009). Entry regulation and business start-ups: Evidence from Mexico. Mimeo, Washington, DC: The World Bank.
31. Kerr, W. R., & Nanda, R. (2009). Democratizing entry: Banking deregulations, financing constraints, and entrepreneurship. Journal of Financial Economics, 94(1), 124-149.
32. Klapper, L., Laeven, L., & Rajan, R. (2006). Entry regulation as a barrier to entrepreneurship. Journal of Financial Economics, 82(3), 591-629.
33. Mankiw, N. G., & Whinston, M. D. (1986). Free entry and social inefficiency. RAND Journal of Economics, 17(1), 48-58.
34. Monopolkommission. (1998). Marktöffnung umfassend verwirklichen. Hauptgutachten der Monopolkommission 1996/97. Germany: Baden-Baden.
35. Monopolkommission. (2002). Reform der Handwerksordnung. 31. Sondergutachten der Monopolkommission. Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos-Verlag.
36. Mullainathan, S., & Schnabl, P. (2010). Does less market entry regulation generate more entrepreneurs? Evidence from a regulatory reform in Peru. In J. Lerner & A. Schoar (Eds.), International differences in entrepreneurship. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
37. Norton, E. C., Wang, H., & Ai, C. (2004). Computing interaction effects and standard errors in logit and probit models. Stata Journal, 4(2), 154-167.
38. Prantl, S., & Spitz-Oener, A. (2009). How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility? Economics of Transition, 17(4), 769-802.
39. Rajan, R. G., & Zingales, L. (1998). Financial dependence and growth. American Economic Review, 88(3), 559-586.
40. Sadun, R. (2008). Does planning regulation protect independent retailers? CEP Discussion Paper No. 888. London, UK: Centre for Economic Performance.
41. Schiantarelli, F. (2008). Product market regulation and macroeconomic performance: A review of cross-country evidence. Boston College Working Papers in Economics 623, first version 2005. Boston, MA: Boston College.
42. Spence, M. (1976). Product selection, fixed costs, and monopolistic competition. Review of Economic Studies, 43(2), 217-235.
43. Sutton, J. (1997). Gibrat's legacy. Journal of Economic Literature, 35(1), 40-59.
44. Viviano, E. (2008). Entry regulations and labour market outcomes: Evidence from the Italian retail trade sector. Labour Economics, 15(6), 1200-1222.
45. von Weizsäcker, C. C. (1980). A welfare analysis of barriers to entry. The Bell Journal of Economics, 11(2), 399-420.
46. Weinschenk, P. (2010). Entry and incumbent innovation. Preprint 2010/17. Bonn, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.
47. Wooldridge, J. M. (2002). Econometric analysis of cross section and panel data. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
48. World Bank (2008). Doing business 2009. Washington, DC: The World Bank.
49. World Bank (2009). Doing business 2010. Washington, DC: The World Bank.