This research aims to find out the relationship between informality and the internalization of the rules of behavior that are required for complexity in the economic situation, as a better knowledge is required for formalization policy to have a greater impact. First, we include a theory that...

Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...

This paper examines the post-War Summer and Winter Olympic Games in order to determine the economic and political determinants of national participation, of female participation in particular, and of success at the Games (i.e., medal counts). Compared to the Summer Games, Winter participation...