Germany, West TV was exogenously available only in some regions of the latter. Using regional and individual data, we show … that, after the Reunification, entrepreneurship is higher among the residents of East German regions with West TV signal …

entrepreneurship incidence is higher among the residents of regions that had TV signal than in regions without TV, indicating a first … between treated and non-treated population groups or regions. …

level and the sources of persistence from the 1920s until today. Persistence is mainly found in those regions that were part …, ruling out that persistence is driven by transmission of culture. In most regions that were already part of Poland before … entrepreneurship is related to the historical success of regions, which we capture by the pre-war level of and self-employment in …

data from 1992 to 2005 on 97 German regions to analyze recent convergence in self-employment rates. An astonishing catching …-up process is observed for East German regions during the period under study. However, the general convergence between East and … regions have achieved convergence with West German self-employment rates and some have not. -- Entrepreneurship ; regional …