regional culture and a supporting environment in favor of entrepreneurship that particularly involves social capital. This … how different elements of such a culture, such as social capital, can exert an influence on the level of new business … formation and self-employment. As a demonstration for the relevance of a regional entrepreneurship culture for new business …

Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …