... professions, yet 6 states have them for 30 or more professions. Finally, the average continuing education requirement is just over 26 h every two years. Rent seeking Regulatory policy Sub-national government Law and economics Occupational licensing Occupational licensing laws are one...

... requirements 18 Criminal background 19 Research notes 20 Penalties 21 Inspections 22 Mandatory bonding/insurance 23 Registration 24 Certification 25 Licensing 26 Coding notes 27 NAICS industry classification Rent seeking Regulatory policy Local policy...

... those funds. Section 5 concludes with the implications of the analysis. Christopher J. Coyne can be contacted at: ccoyne3@gmu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Rent seeking Firm performance Entrepreneurial action Political entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial opportunity...

... in productive and unproductive entrepreneurship. Institutions channel individuals into entrepreneurship or rent seeking (Sobel, 2008) and also rent-seekers change institutions to better suit their economic motives. However, whether a particular industry pursues entrepreneurship or rent seeking depends...

... Redford can be contacted at: amredford@email.wcu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Rent seeking Innovation Entrepreneurial action Regulatory policy Political entrepreneurship The essential problem of the historian of entrepreneurship is that of interpreting...

... this motive and the effects of various policies fostering cronyism or rent seeking are potential contributions of the paper. G.P. Manish can be contacted at: gmanish@troy.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Consumer purchases provide external validation of a “good” product...

... Publishing Limited 2013 Employment Freedom Rent seeking The positive relationship between increased economic freedom and increased economic prosperity for societies is well established in the empirical literature. The evidence suggests that institutional frameworks supportive of economic...

... only a small, deliberately chosen sample of the literature. Originality/value To the authors’ knowledge, no one has previously written a unified review of the market entrepreneurship, political entrepreneurship, and public choice. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Rent seeking...

...Diana W. Thomas; Peter T. Leeson Purpose This paper seeks to examine how productive entrepreneurial activities, such as innovation, influence unproductive entrepreneurial activities, such as regulatory rent seeking. Design/methodology/approach To investigate the argument the authors consider...