strength are strongly linked to higher business entry rates. Our results for China contrast with recent findings on the effects … entrepreneurship. …

compatible with the free-market economy principles and supportive of entrepreneurship. We show that during the 40 years of … socialistic regime in East Germany entrepreneurship was highly regulated and virtually impossible and that the prevalent formal … and informal institutions broke the traditional ties linking entrepreneurship to the characteristics of individuals so …

that, after the Reunification, entrepreneurship is higher among the residents of East German regions with West TV signal …

institutional contexts. However, most evidence exists for contexts with more or less entrepreneurship-facilitating and stable … framework conditions for entrepreneurship. In both contexts, entrepreneurs are challenged either by external resistance toward … literature is not an artefact of stable entrepreneurship-facilitating institutional framework conditions. …

conducive to entrepreneurship and the notion that self-reliance, self-determination and proactive behavior are desirable from … entrepreneurship incidence is higher among the residents of regions that had TV signal than in regions without TV, indicating a first …