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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2011
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SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 373
Verlag: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Zusammenfassung: 
In this paper it is argued that locus of control beliefs and preferences concerning state action negatively affect the formation of new firms in former socialist countries. For this purpose Kirzner's theory of costless entrepreneurship is reviewed and criticized. German reunification, in which the formerly Socialist East joined the Federal Republic of Germany, represents an intriguing natural experiment in which the formal institutional structure of one nation was almost fully transplanted into another. Traditional as well as psychological factors are examined. The results suggest that about one third of the east-west gap in new self-employment can be explained by inert informal institutions.
Schlagwörter: 
Psychology of Entrepreneurship
Self-Employment
Transitional Economies
East Germany
JEL: 
D0
J24
O12
P20
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