Recent research has highlighted the role of institutions in channeling entrepreneurs into activities with positive or … reveals the bilateral causal relation between entrepreneurs and institutions. Core features of the entrepreneur force us to … view its effects on institutions as more than mechanic general equilibrium adjustments. Three analytically separate …

institutions. We present an alternative way of generalizing the notion of entrepreneurship and show how and why it encompasses the … of institutions constitutes an important set of entrepreneurial profit opportunities. An implication of this is that … entrepreneurial efforts to reform or offset inefficient institutions can in some cases be welfare-improving. …