We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate …

This paper studies whether the degree of women’s representation in Swedish local councils affects local public … effects of women’s representation on spending. The subsequent panel study on the composition of public spending in Swedish …

general public. In a democracy, electoral competition and information provided by the media may keep such rent extraction at … line with our theoretical predictions, we find that both increased political competition and increased local media coverage …

entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property … protection makes it more likely that entrepreneurs will commercialize by cooperating with incumbents rather than competing with …

entrepreneurs and how these actions depend upon the prevailing institutions. While institutions have extensively been examined for … their influences upon the freedoms and the incentives of entrepreneurs, and thereby upon the level of employment of … resources, this paper examines their influences upon the selection of entrepreneurs, and thereby upon the efficiency of that …

where adverse selection problems between entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and incumbents are present. We show that as …

Most previous studies have found evidence at the aggregate level that female entrepreneurs underperform relative to … sample of 4200 entrepreneurs (405 females) with 1 to 20 employees in all sectors of the economy. Our study confirms the … results of several previous studies that female entrepreneurs tend to underperform relative to men when the data is examined …

-rational modes underlie both the erratic perturbations of entrepreneurship and the systematic waves of diffusion they initiate which … possible by financial intermediation. They imply asymmetric changes in individual welfare. The markets for entrepreneurship …