Abstract Government size, corruption, and tax policy can influence allocation towards necessity or opportunity-driven entrepreneurship. Using a comparative multi-source sample across 52 countries during 2005–2015, we apply mixed-process estimation of the simultaneously unrelated system equations unpack these heterogeneous complex effects. Interestingly, our results show that corruption on oppor...

Relevance: With Russia's economy and trade growing significantly since 2014, there is a need to examine the impact of economic openness on government expenditure, given country's fiscal reforms. Research Objective: This study aims measure expenditure (government size) by categorizing it into capital openness. The Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model used long-run short-run size. Data Me...