individuals pursuing their own interests while they remain in power. We model growth in a 'proprietary economy" facing each period … growth or shrink,9,ge. With low initial domestic capital the proprietor plunders the country's resources and the economy …

We model growth in dictatorships facing each period an endogenous probability of ``political catastrophe'' that would … extinguish the regime's wealth extraction ability. Domestic capital exhibits a bifurcation point determining economic growth or …

possible implications of this key fact by surveying and adapting literature on growth and inequality. I focus especially on the …

the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …

entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of human capital, is related to the performance and motivation of …