The Effect of Ease of Doing Business on Firm Creation

This paper looked at the effect of ease of doing business on firm creation. Using a nine-year panel data of about 120 countries from the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Reports, results suggest that overall ease of doing business has a positive effect on business creation. This relationship is m...

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Main Author: Canare, Tristan A
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.economics-faculty-pubs-10602020-07-09T03:31:20Z The Effect of Ease of Doing Business on Firm Creation Canare, Tristan A This paper looked at the effect of ease of doing business on firm creation. Using a nine-year panel data of about 120 countries from the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Reports, results suggest that overall ease of doing business has a positive effect on business creation. This relationship is most strongly driven by the Starting a Business component, but Paying Taxes is also important. In addition, the effect of the Starting a Business component is driven by the financial cost rather than the time and administrative cost. Finally, results change when the analysis is applied to non-high-income countries only. 2018-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://archium.ateneo.edu/economics-faculty-pubs/61 http://aeconf.com/Articles/Nov2018/aef190207.pdf Economics Department Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo Ease of doing business Cost of doing business Firm creation System GMM Panel data Economics
institution Ateneo De Manila University
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Philippines
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topic Ease of doing business
Cost of doing business
Firm creation
System GMM
Panel data
Economics
spellingShingle Ease of doing business
Cost of doing business
Firm creation
System GMM
Panel data
Economics
Canare, Tristan A
The Effect of Ease of Doing Business on Firm Creation
description This paper looked at the effect of ease of doing business on firm creation. Using a nine-year panel data of about 120 countries from the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Reports, results suggest that overall ease of doing business has a positive effect on business creation. This relationship is most strongly driven by the Starting a Business component, but Paying Taxes is also important. In addition, the effect of the Starting a Business component is driven by the financial cost rather than the time and administrative cost. Finally, results change when the analysis is applied to non-high-income countries only.
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author Canare, Tristan A
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title The Effect of Ease of Doing Business on Firm Creation
title_short The Effect of Ease of Doing Business on Firm Creation
title_full The Effect of Ease of Doing Business on Firm Creation
title_fullStr The Effect of Ease of Doing Business on Firm Creation
title_full_unstemmed The Effect of Ease of Doing Business on Firm Creation
title_sort effect of ease of doing business on firm creation
publisher Archīum Ateneo
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url https://archium.ateneo.edu/economics-faculty-pubs/61
http://aeconf.com/Articles/Nov2018/aef190207.pdf
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