One size fits all? The differential impact of federal regulation on early-stage entrepreneurial activity across US states

John Dove

Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2023, vol. 63, issue 1, No 3, 57-73

Abstract: Abstract Numerous studies evaluate how a jurisdiction’s institutional and specifically regulatory environment impact firm formation and entrepreneurial activity. This study adds to this by employing a dataset measuring the differential impact that federal regulations have on industries across US states. Specifically, the paper addresses how such differences affect several facets of early-stage entrepreneurial activity, including an index measure of early-stage entrepreneurship, opportunity entrepreneurship, job creation at startup, and new firm survival rates all derived from the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity. Overall, the results suggest that early-stage entrepreneurial activity tends to be negatively correlated with a relatively more burdensome federal regulatory environment. While the channels do not indicate an effect through new firm formation or firm survival rates, both opportunity entrepreneurship and job formation are negatively and significantly affected. Implications are discussed.

Keywords: Regulation; Entrepreneurship; Firm Formation; Job creation; Early-stage entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 H73 K20 L26 L51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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