In the last twenty-five years, economists have significantly contributed to the development of institutional approach in entrepreneurship research by identifying institutional factors that strengthen entrepreneurship development, which in turn spur economic growth (Urbano, et al., 2018). Despite...

Explaining how political institutions shape human behavior is one of the big challenges of social sciences. This thesis uses game theory, behavioral economics and the tools of experimental economics to study two topics in particular: information aggregation and legitimacy of institutions. While...