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Which institutions encourage entrepreneurs to create larger firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274639
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The role of the government in entrepreneurship development : evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dzafić, Zijad; Babajić, Amra - In: Economic review : journal of economics & business 14 (2016) 1, pp. 68-79
as main agents of entrepreneurship in the BiH. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012467
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Effective Property Rights, Conflict and Growth
Gonzalez, Francisco M. - 2009
This paper shows how the interaction between conflict and growth can give rise to a nonmonotone relationship between property rights and social welfare. This interaction is illustrated in a model of endogenous growth in which equilibrium diversion of resources is the cost of securing effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199843
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Better means more: property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional …-growth ventures. We find that institutions exert different effects on entrepreneurial entry and on the individual choice to launch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271286
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What makes a revolution?
MacCulloch, Robert - 1999 - Draft
A fundamental requirement of market economies is the security of ownership claims to property. Yet history is littered with cases of challenges to these claims. A large literature has found contradictory evidence for the effect of income and income inequality on revolt, possibly due to omitted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519062
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The lag structure of the impact of business ownership on economic performance in OECD countries
Carree, Martin Anthony (contributor);  … - 2006 - This version: August 2006
This note investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure. The analysis is performed at the country level for 21...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280365
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The legacy of representation in medieval Europe for incomes and institutions today
Pavlik, Jamie Bologna; Young, Andrew T. - In: Southern economic journal 88 (2021) 1, pp. 414-448
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190267
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Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities
Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004
Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole U.S. private sector economy, we examine the impact of these externalities, as measured by entrepreneurial activity, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270564
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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2013
where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319500
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Culture, entrepreneurship, and growth
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2013
where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757305