Although the role of formal and informal institutions in promoting economic growth and sustaining exchange relations is … challenge. This study aims to distill the essential characteristics of formal and informal institutions and disentangle their … effects on trust and performance in exchange relations through a laboratory experiment. Formal institutions are modeled as …

-friendly institutions in a country are conducive to the well-being of self-employed. Remarkably, the quality of entrepreneurial institutions …

This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship- facilitating entry … countries measured by data from EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). We find that institutions never … affected both occupational groups in opposite ways. Our findings indicate that labor market institutions do not play an …

institutions with better incentive structures for entrepreneurs are perceived as being of higher quality by this group. We find … empirical evidence that high institutional quality increases the willingness of the self-employed to accept these institutions …

of good institutions (especially a high quality of regulation) can in part prevent this effect, which can be cautiously … institutions, these losses may be prevented or mitigated. …

. Implications for public policy suggest that institutions need to be strengthened before entrepreneurial resource can be deployed to …