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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 resource curse and its potential reversal
Boschini, Anne; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - 2012
resource measure, using alternative measures of both resources and institutions, and by studying different time periods. While … institutions are good enough. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321368
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Property rights and their impact on the wealth of nations: a cross-country study
Heitger, Bernhard - 2003
This paper investigates the quality of property rights and long-term economic growth in an international cross-section of countries in 1975?1995. The empirical tests indicate that the impact of private property rights on growth is positive and simultaneously determined. Correcting for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260627
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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. …
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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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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurial Growth Aspirations?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewics, Tomasz - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191026
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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...
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To what extent is the institutional environment responsible for worldwide differences in economic development
Próchniak, Mariusz - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 3, pp. 17-38
economic development. To answer this question, a new concept of the institutions-augmented Solow model is constructed. The … institutions-augmented Solow model fits the empirical data very well. It turns out that differences in physical capital, human … differences in economic development among the countries of the world. According to the institutions-augmented Solow model, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228513
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On the empirics of institutions and quality of growth : evidence for developing countries
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2015
We explore a newly available dataset on quality of growth to investigate the effect of institutions on growth quality … in 93 developing countries for the period 1990 to 2011. Quality of institutions is measured in term of political risk … established. First, institutions are positively related to the quality of growth. Second, institutions have significantly …
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