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Dossier Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy per se fulfills important economic functions: It helps to ensure legal certainty, planning security and equal treatment.

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SME Development Barometer

IfM Bonn uses the "Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises", to report semiannually on the current ...

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IfM Bonn News

IfM video "How to reduce bureaucracy"

Entrepreneurs are increasingly no longer able to implement all existing bureaucratic requirements on the part of the state – but also from self-regulatory organisations in the economy, standardisation institutes or within value chains.

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Ways out of the bureaucratic burden

Excessive regulation, a lack of realism and insufficient practical suitability are the main reasons why entrepreneurs perceive bureaucracy as an extreme burden.

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IfM-Position Paper

In need of a paradigm shift – Rethinking bureaucracy reduction and regulation policies

Highly complex economies and societies need regulations to ensure their ability to function. These ensure legal and planning certainty and prevent corruption. However, especially in the view of SMEs, the "optimal" level of bureaucracy – which is difficult to determine empirically – seems to be far exceeded by now.

According to a recent study by IfM Bonn (Holz, Icks & Nielen 2023), the bureaucratic burden on companies goes well beyond the statistically measured time and cost expenditures.

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Figure of the months

8 out of 10

entrepreneurs see their enjoyment of entrepreneurial activity diminish due to the bureaucratic burden.

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Policy Brief "Entrepreneurship in Focus"

Financed maternity benefits for self-employed women?

Self-employed women can voluntarily insure themselves against loss of earnings during the maternity protection period through health insurance.

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Cooperation with University of Siegen

Cooperation with University of Siegen

Zukunftspanel Mittelstand

Zukunftspanel Mittelstand

NUI region ranking

NUI region ranking

Offensive Mittelstand

Offensive Mittelstand

Data of the IfM Bonn

Data of the IfM Bonn

Third party research

Third party research