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) informal institutions. Overall, the proposed institutional changes move in a liberalizing direction; however, one …
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We examine whether Europe has an "entrepreneurship deficit" compared to other industrialized regions. Cross-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe...
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Evasive entrepreneurs innovate by circumventing or disrupting existing formal institutional frameworks by evading them. Since such evasions rarely go unnoticed, they usually lead to responses from lawmakers and regulators. We introduce a conceptual model to illustrate and map the interdependence...
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In the wake of the corona crisis, the European Union must regain lost ground and create more favorable conditions for inclusive and sustainable economic growth. The best way to achieve this goal is by increasing the Union's innovativeness. This effort requires extensive and broad-based...
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The overwhelming majority of self-employed individuals are not entrepreneurial in the Schumpeterian sense. To unmistakably identify Schumpeterian entrepreneurs, we focus on self-made billionaires (in USD) from the Forbes Magazine list who became wealthy by founding new firms. In this way, we...
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In this paper, we argue that evasive entrepreneurship is an important source of innovation in the economy. Institutions … entrepreneur may earn large rents by circumventing institutional impediments. Paradoxically, institutions may be less of a … evasive entrepreneurship may be able to prevent economic development from being stifled by existing institutions during times …
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of formal and informal institutions based on data available from the 2000s onward. We employ principal component analysis …
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direction of entrepreneurial activity. Four key institutions are explored more closely: property rights protection, savings … policies, taxation and the regulation of labor markets. Institutions have far-reaching effects on entrepreneurship, and they … entrepreneurship to the institutional setup it is maintained that in-depth analyses of specific institutions are required in order to …
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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 …
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determinants. We add to the literature by investigating whether the degree to which economic institutions and policies are market …
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