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20182022
most citedWeathering the Storm: How Foreign Aid and Institutions Affect Entrepreneurship Following Natural Disasters

31 citations · 44 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

econ.GN2022

Populist Discourse and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Political Ideology and Institutions

Daniel L. Bennett, Christopher J. Boudreaux, Boris N. Nikolaev

Using institutional economic theory as our guiding framework, we develop a model to describe how populist discourse by a nation's political leader influences entrepreneurship. We h…

econ.GN202131 cited

Weathering the Storm: How Foreign Aid and Institutions Affect Entrepreneurship Following Natural Disasters

Christopher Boudreaux, Anand Jha, Monica Escaleras

This study examines how foreign aid and institutions affect entrepreneurship activity following natural disasters. We use insights from the entrepreneurship, development, and insti…

econ.GN2021

Social capital and small business productivity: The mediating roles of financing and customer relationships

Christopher Boudreaux, George Clarke, Anand Jha

How does an entrepreneur's social capital improve small informal business productivity? Although studies have investigated this relationship, we still know little about the underly…

econ.GN201913 cited

Entrepreneurship, Institutions, and Economic Growth: Does the Level of Development Matter?

Christopher J. Boudreaux

Entrepreneurship is often touted for its ability to generate economic growth. Through the creative-destructive process, entrepreneurs are often able to innovate and outperform incu…

econ.GN2019

The Interdependence of Hierarchical Institutions: Federal Regulation, Job Creation, and the Moderating Effect of State Economic Freedom

David S. Lucas, Christopher J. Boudreaux

Regulation is commonly viewed as a hindrance to entrepreneurship, but heterogeneity in the effects of regulation is rarely explored. We focus on regional variation in the effects o…

econ.GN2019

When does privatization spur entrepreneurial performance? The moderating effect of institutional quality in an emerging market

Christopher Boudreaux

We explore how institutional quality moderates the effectiveness of privatization on entrepreneurs sales performance. To do this, we blend agency theory and entrepreneurial cogniti…