There is increasing scholarly interest in informal entrepreneurship. We empirically examine how institutions interact to influence the informal entrepreneurship. Using a novel multi-source dataset we test institutional drivers of informal entrepreneurship in 28 innovation-driven countries during...

What are informal political institutions? How different colonial institutions differently impact long-term economic and political development in former European colonies? What is the role of informal political institutions in the political stability of democratic and authoritarian regimes in...

This paper provides an evidence-based evaluation of the competing ways of explaining and tackling the informal economy. Conventionally, participants have been viewed as rational economic actors who engage in the informal economy when the benefits outweigh the costs, and thus participation is...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Theorising entrepreneurship in the informal sector -- An institutionalist perspective -- Determinants of institutional asymmetry -- Informal sector entrepreneurship in global perspective -- Prevalence of informal entrepreneurship -- Impacts of informal...