Este trabajo examina el concepto de emprendimiento y su relación con el desarrollo económico a la luz de la literatura académica, el Global Entrepreneurship Monitor y otros índices internacionales. El análisis subraya las diferencias entre el emprendimiento por oportunidad, que conduce al...

We study the factors that may influence the attitude toward the risk of entrepreneurial activity and its impact on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. We proxy the attitude toward risk by using the answers to the fear of failing question contained in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor...

This paper uses an institutional approach to examine the effect of regulations on entrepreneurial activity, comparing developed and developing countries. Through an unbalanced panel data set of 49 countries over the period 2001-2010 and using a combination of international databases we find a...