Who are Russia’s entrepreneurs?

Simeon Djankov (), Edward Miguel (), Yingyi Qian (), Gérard Roland () and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya ()
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Edward Miguel: UC Berkeley and NBER
Yingyi Qian: UC Berkeley and CEPR

No w0048, Working Papers from Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR)

Abstract: Social scientists studying entrepreneurship have emphasized three distinct sets of variables: the institutional environment, sociological variables, and personal and psychological characteristics. We are conducting surveys in five large developing and transition economies to better understand entrepreneurship. In this short paper, using over 2,000 interviews from a pilot study in Russia, we find evidence that the three sets of variables matter: perceptions of the local institutional environment, social network effects and individual characteristics are all important in determining entrepreneurial behavior.

JEL-codes: M13 P12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2005-10
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