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's institutions ('rules of the game'). Two stylized institutional variants of market selection and one of government selection are …
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This paper studies the interaction between the incentives for predation and mergers. I show that the incentive for predation in an oligopoly is limited by the subsequent competition for the prey. This bidding competition is especially fierce when the prey's assets exert strong negative...
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Previous research, notably Baumol (1990), has highlighted the role of insti-tutions in channeling entrepreneurial … institutions—entrepreneurs often help shape institutions themselves. The bilateral causal relation between entrepreneurs and … institutions is examined in this paper. Entrepreneurs affect institutions in at least three ways. Entrepreneurship abiding by …
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policies, taxation and the regulation of labor markets. Institutions have far-reaching effects on entrepreneurship, and they … direction of entrepreneurial activity. Four key institutions are explored more closely: property rights protection, savings … entrepreneurship to the institutional setup it is maintained that in-depth analyses of specific institutions are required in order to …
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Recent research has highlighted the role of institutions in channeling entrepreneurs into activities with positive or … reveals the bilateral causal relation between entrepreneurs and institutions. Core features of the entrepreneur force us to … view its effects on institutions as more than mechanic general equilibrium adjustments. Three analytically separate …
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determinants. We add to the literature by investigating whether the degree to which economic institutions and policies are market …
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Entrepreneurship policy mainly aims to promote innovative “Schumpeterian” entrepreneurship. However, the rate of entrepreneurship is commonly proxied using quantity-based metrics, such as small business activity, the self-employment rate or the number of startups. We argue that those metrics...
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classify the budding research field that explores the interplay between institutions and entrepreneurship. Institutions channel … development of nations. What’s more, entrepreneurship is not only influenced by institutions—entrepreneurs often shape … institutions themselves. Entrepreneurship abiding by existing institutions is occasionally disruptive enough to challenge the …
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In this paper, we argue that evasive entrepreneurship is an important source of innovation in the economy. Institutions … entrepreneur may earn large rents by circumventing institutional impediments. Paradoxically, institutions may be less of a … evasive entrepreneurship may be able to prevent economic development from being stifled by existing institutions during times …
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The overwhelming majority of self-employed individuals are not entrepreneurial in the Schumpeterian sense. To unmistakably identify Schumpeterian entrepreneurs, we focus on self-made billionaires (in USD) from the Forbes Magazine list who became wealthy by founding new firms. In this way, we...
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