Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The … determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the … determining the incidence of entrepreneurship. We explore the creation of Special Civil Tribunals in the Brazilian state of São …

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …

. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …

entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …