Entrepreneurs' Acceptance of Formal Institutions: A Cross-country Analysis

Andreas Freytag () and Florian Noseleit ()

No 2009-047, Jena Economic Research Papers in Economics from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Thueringer Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek

Abstract: Institutional settings and the resulting incentive structures are crucial for economic development. The type of entrepreneurial activity and the entrepreneurial effort are especially dependent on underlying incentive structures. We argue that institutions with better incentive structures for entrepreneurs are perceived as being of higher quality by this group. We find empirical evidence that high institutional quality increases the willingness of the self-employed to accept these institutions. Furthermore, institutional quality affects the deviation in acceptance of self-employed to non-self-employed such that lower institutional quality is related to less acceptance by entrepreneurs compared to the rest of society.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; self-employment; institutions; cross-country study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 A13 H11 K11 O43 P48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009-07-02

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