• DOI:10.1007/S00712-013-0375-Z
Corpus ID: 154956413

Taxation and the quality of entrepreneurship

@article{Asoni2014TaxationAT,
  title={Taxation and the quality of entrepreneurship},
  author={A. Asoni and Tino Sanandaji},
  journal={Journal of Economics},
  year={2014},
  volume={113},
  pages={101-123}
}

• A. Asoni, Tino Sanandaji
• Published 2014
• Economics
• Journal of Economics

We study the effect of taxation on entrepreneurship, investigating how taxes affect both the number of start-ups and their average quality. We show theoretically that even with risk neutral agents and no tax evasion progressive taxes can increase entrepreneurial entry, while reducing average firm quality. So called “success taxes” encourage start-ups with lower value business ideas by reducing the option value of pursuing better projects. This suggests that the most common measure used in the… Expand

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