We review and assess the role local institutional framework conditions play in fostering local entrepreneurship. The … basic premise is that entrepreneurship is a central driver of economic renewal and change, and that institutions affect both … the supply and direction of entrepreneurship. While local institutions always develop and operate against the backdrop of …

deemed to be of particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the … economy. Particular aspects of entrepreneurship and economic dynamism are covered by pairs (or in one case three) coauthors …

What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies in the last few decades? We study entrepreneurial …

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …

slow economic growth through different channels: expropriation of private wealth, corruption of civil servants, excessive …

In this paper, we use data from a corruption survey conducted among top politicians and high level civil servants in … 290 Swedish municipalities in 2007 to investigate the effects of government size on corruption. We construct several … measures of corruption based on the survey, and combine these corruption measures with detailed administrative municipality …

We examine the effect of corruption on foreign direct investments. Our model shows that corruption may have different … market. Using Swedish firm-level data, we find that affiliate local sales decrease with corruption, while affiliate exports … increase. Finally, corruption has a negative effect on the probability that a foreign firm will invest in a country. These …

therefore easily fails to appreciate the true impact of entrepreneurship in real world circumstances characterized by suboptimal … destructive entrepreneurship. Baumol’s classificatory scheme is built around a limited concept of first-best outcomes and … institutions. We present an alternative way of generalizing the notion of entrepreneurship and show how and why it encompasses the …