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Natural disasters and social entrepreneurship: An attention-based view
Shihao Wei, Christopher Boudreaux, Zhongfeng Su +1
Drawing on the attention based view, this study explores the joint effects of natural disaster intensity at the country level with personal attributes in terms of gender, human cap…
Government Investments and Entrepreneurship
Joao Ricardo Faria, Laudo Ogura, Mauricio Prado +1
How can governments attract entrepreneurs and their businesses? The view that new business creation grows with the optimal level of government investments remains appealing to poli…
Gender Diversity in Ownership and Firm Innovativeness in Emerging Markets. The Mediating Roles of R&D Investments and External Capital
Vartuhi Tonoyan, Christopher Boudreaux
Despite recent evidence linking gender diversity in the firm with firm innovativeness, we know little about the underlying mechanisms. Building on and extending the Upper Echelon a…
Natural Disasters, Entrepreneurship Activity, and the Moderating Role of Country Governance
Christopher Boudreaux, Anand Jha, Monica Escaleras
The purpose of this paper is to investigate if a country quality of governance moderates the effect of natural disasters on startup activity within that country. We test our hypoth…
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…
Application of the Pythagorean Expected Wins Percentage and Cross-Validation Methods in Estimating Team Quality
Christopher Boudreaux, Justin Ehrlich, Shankar Ghimire +1
The Pythagorean Expected Wins Percentage Model was developed by Bill James to estimate a baseball team expected wins percentage over the course of a season. As such, the model can…
Institutional Quality and the Wealth of Autocrats
Christopher Boudreaux, Randall Holcombe
One frequently given explanation for why autocrats maintain corrupt and inefficient institutions is that the autocrats benefit personally even though the citizens of their countrie…
An Analysis of an Alternative Pythagorean Expected Win Percentage Model: Applications Using Major League Baseball Team Quality Simulations
Justin Ehrlich, Christopher Boudreaux, James Boudreau +1
We ask if there are alternative contest models that minimize error or information loss from misspecification and outperform the Pythagorean model. This article aims to use simulate…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Shattering the glass ceiling? How the institutional context mitigates the gender gap in entrepreneurship
Christopher J. Boudreaux, Boris Nikolaev
We examine how the institutional context affects the relationship between gender and opportunity entrepreneurship. To do this, we develop a multi-level model that connects feminist…