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Douglass North (1990) describes institutions as the rules of the game that set limits on human behavior, now a ….” A review of this evidence, and its implications for our understanding of the role of social norms and institutions, is …
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entrepreneurship; c) institutions matter for entrepreneurship and growth but, somehow, in unconventional ways. … growing literature considers culturally-based beliefs and institutions as main drivers of the latter differences (Guiso et al …. 2006; Tabellini 2010). The intuition is that institutions and beliefs affect the incentive to accumulate human and physical …
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. The findings of the study suggest that while formal incentives to nurture entrepreneurship must be maintained, policy …
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Our objective here is to establish the proposition that creative entrepreneurship gives rise to a market order which is … design of the core mechanism that made the Greek diaspora network such a suc-cess was entrepreneurship. …
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institution. Therefore, it is first necessary to understand what are institutions (being money one of them) in order to comprehend …
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Information is the lifeblood of most market economies. Nevertheless, attempts to jump start information flow by creating Market Information Services for food and agriculture usually fail. The author distills experiences and lessons from other studies and individual experts in the field on the...
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Global modeling has evolved remarkable in the last two decades. Such evolution led global modeling to perform today's role as an experimental laboratory for the social sciences, and particularly for applications to policy planning. Two of the most interesting applications to policy are to...
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The ultimate objective of the present paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of competition policy in developed and developing countries. Although its importance is continuously increasing, the effectiveness of competition policy still seems to lack the attention that it would...
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We examine the spatio-temporal dynamics of self-employment in India using geoadditive models and pseudo panel techniques. We test the claim of Iyigun and Owen (1999) that individuals invest in professional human capital and not in entrepreneurial human capital as an economy develops. The results...
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By comparing the development of landownership in China and England, this paper explores what were behind their different trajectories. In particular, I examined the delineation of property rights, alienation of land, rent and tax, inheritance and accumulation of land. Feudal England was a...
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