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Entrepreneurship, Reforms, and Development: Empirical Evidence

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  • Mina Baliamoune-Lutz

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We examine how entrepreneurship and institutional and policy reforms affect development (proxied by the rate of growth in per–capita income). We do so by performing Arellano-Bond GMM estimations on annual data for a large group of developing and developed countries, and covering the period 1990-2002. We focus in particular on the interplay of trade and institutional reforms and entrepreneurship. The empirical results indicate that the interplay of entrepreneurship and institutions, and the interplay of entrepreneurship and policy reforms, influence the growth effects of entrepreneurship. However, the effects are strikingly different. The impact of institutional reform is positive when the level of entrepreneurship is low and negative when it is high. On the other hand, the effect of policy reform is negative when entrepreneurial activity is weak and positive when it is strong. These results are robust to the inclusion of other control variables.

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Paper provided by ICER - International Centre for Economic Research in its series ICER Working Papers with number 38-2007.

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Length: 29 pages
Date of creation: Mar 2007
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Handle: RePEc:icr:wpicer:38-2007

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Keywords: development; growth; entrepreneurship; institutions; policy reform;

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Cited by:
  1. Mina Baliamoune-Lutz & Pierre Garello, 2011. "Tax Structure and Entrepreneurship," CAE Working Papers 94, Aix-Marseille Université, CERGAM.
  2. Léonce Ndikumana & Mina Baliamoune-Lutz & Zuzana Brixiová, 2011. "Credit Constraints And Productive Entrepreneurship In Africa," Working Papers wp276, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
  3. Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, 2008. "On Growth and Development," ICER Working Papers 13-2008, ICER - International Centre for Economic Research.
  4. Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina, 2009. "Entrepreneurship and Reforms in Developing Countries," Working Papers UNU-WIDER Research Paper , World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  5. Mina Baliamoune-Lutz & Zuzana Brixiová & Léonce Ndikumana, 2011. "Credit Constraints & Productive Entrepreneurship in Africa," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series wp1025, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.
  6. Zuzana Brixiova, 2010. "Unlocking Productive Entrepreneurship In Africa’S Least Developed Countries," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series wp990, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.

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