Barriers to Entrepreneurship - World Bank

Data• Our primary source of firm-level data is the Amadeus databasewith information on >5 million firms in 34 European countries.• It improves upon previously used datasets in that it includes a largenumber of private firms and all industrial sectors.• We measure entry as the share of new firms, calculated at thecountry and industry level.• Proxies for natural propensity to enter and other industrycharacteristics from a variety of sources, all based on U.S. data• Proxies for entry barriers and other regulations from a variety ofsources.4