Recent research has highlighted the role of institutions in channeling entrepreneurs into activities with positive or negative effects on overall productivity. Embedding central elements from these theories into a political economy framework reveals the bilateral causal relation between...

In this introductory chapter to a collective volume dealing with the political economy of entrepreneurship,* we argue, based on a suggested unifying framework, that political economy is a fruitful approach to entrepreneurship. The importance of institutions in structuring such an analysis is...

We outline a politico-economic growth system centered around the entrepreneur. By defining entrepreneurs in relation to economic rents we are able to develop a more general theory comprising central aspects of research within the fields of entrepreneurship/small business, public choice and new...

During the late 1980s, Norwegian salmon farmers had a market share of over 50% for farmed salmon in the USA. In 1991 a countervailing duty and an anti-dumping duty were imposed on Norwegian exports of farmed salmon to the US which basically closed the market for Norwegian salmon. The primary aim...

A market is served by domestic and foreign firms, where the latter incurs a trade cost when delivering to the market. We ask now how trade liberalization -interpreted as a reduction in trade costs- affects the profitability and the welfare effects of a merger between two domestic firms.

The purpose of this paper is to survey the changes which have been taking place in the US airline industry and in the National Airway System, since the 1960s.

This paper uses the model developed by Jorion and Schwartz (1986) to test whether the Australian capital market is segmented from or integrated into the world capital market. Using industry portfolio data for the period 1974 to 1992, we examine whether the Australian market was segmented from...