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Did the ACA reduce job-lock and spur entrepreneurship?
Simon Condliffe, Matt B. Saboe, Sabrina TerrizziThe purpose of this paper is to assess the effect of the recent Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Dependent Mandate (DM) that requires health insurers to extend dependent coverage to…
Productivity, institutions, and market beliefs: three entrepreneurial interpretations
Pál CzeglédiInspired by the debates among economists about the role of beliefs and informal institutions in economic development, the purpose of this paper is to derive and test different…
Entrepreneurship, corruption and economic freedom
Gregory Dempster, Justin IsaacsThe purpose of this paper is to extend the literature on entrepreneurship and corruption by examining the link between productive and unproductive entrepreneurial activities as…
Regulation and entrepreneurial intention: cross-country evidence
Sriparna GhoshEntrepreneurship, along with its effect on economic growth, has been a major topic of research for quite some time now. However, none of these studies employs the use of…
Institutional inefficiency: small farms starve India’s economy
Tyler Watts, Molly WoodruffThe purpose of this paper is to examine differences in property institutions in the USA and India and their effects on agricultural productivity.
Local entrepreneurial programming: myth or reality– a southern case study
Lori Dickes, Elizabeth Crouch, Thomas C. WalkerEntrepreneurship is argued to be a critical driver of economic growth for both individual communities and the nation. Regional scientists, economists, and policy makers underscore…
Can foreign aid motivate institutional reform? An evaluation of the HIPC Initiative
Minh Tam Schlosky, Andrew YoungA number of political economy concerns are associated with the provision of foreign aid to developing economies. These concerns suggest that foreign aid is likely to have harmful…
An agent-based model of entrepreneurship: Examining the role of alertness and transaction costs
Graham D. Newell, Matthew J. HolianThe purpose of this paper is to develop an agent-based model that highlights the role of entrepreneurship in the market process.
