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Calling Baumol: what telephones can tell us about the allocation of entrepreneurial talent in the face of radical institutional changes
Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2021
commitment to socialism reflects rent-seeking, a type of unproductive entrepreneurship. Once institutions change radically, their … entrepreneurial efforts are redirected towards productive entrepreneurship (start-up activity). Regime commitment is captured by … that this group of people were more likely to have an entrepreneurship- prone personality profile, had a higher propensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550208
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Institutions, networks and entrepreneurship development in Russia : an exploration
Aidis, Ruta (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006
. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak … entrepreneurial activity in its weak institutional environment. -- entrepreneurship ; institutions ; networks ; Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003333107
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Do institutions have a greater effect on female entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009
both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal … financial sector. -- Female entrepreneurship ; state sector ; informal finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920042
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A theory of conservative revivals
Iyigun, Murat; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner - 2018
Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient political and economic institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do such conditions sometimes generate conservative ideological backlashes and, at other times, progressive social and political movements? We propose an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949432
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The ideological roots of institutional change
Iyigun, Murat; Rubin, Jared - 2017
Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do such conditions sometimes generate ideological backlashes and at other times lead to transformative sociopolitical movements? We propose an explanation that highlights the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641551
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The EU anchor thesis: transition from socialism, the institutional vacuum and membership in the European Union
Campos, Nauro - 2021
One of the strongest stylized facts of the transition is also one of the most unexpected: after 1989 Central and Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions are a main reason. The EU anchor thesis posits that the prospect of membership in the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012792626
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Are we there yet? : time for checks and balances on new institutionalism
Iyigun, Murat - 2012
New institutionalism has had considerable success during the last decade in shepherding the debate on sustained economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three decades prove anything, however, it is that the late Mancur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631449
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670896
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Entrepreneurship in transition economies : the role of institutions and generational change
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010
The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …. -- Entrepreneurship ; formal and informal sectors ; shadow economy ; institutional arrangements ; comparative studies of countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942200
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Court-ship, kinship and business : a study on the interaction between the formal and the informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani - 2015
In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488828