The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings.

Includes bibliographical references.

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Philippe Aghion and Patrick Bolton (1997), 'A Theory of Trickle-Down Growth and Development', Review of Economic Studies, 64 (2), April, 151-72 -- Abhijit V. Banerjee and Andrew F. Newman (1993), 'Occupational Choice and the Process of Development', Journal of Political Economy, 101 (2), April, 274-98 -- David S. Evans and Boyan Jovanovic (1989), 'An Estimated Model of Entrepreneurial Choice under Liquidity Constraints', Journal of Political Economy, 97 (4), August, 808-27 -- Huw Lloyd-Ellis and Dan Bernhardt (2000), 'Enterprise, Inequality and Economic Development', Review of Economic Studies, 67 (1), January, 147-68 -- Anna L. Paulson, Robert M. Townsend and Alexander Karaivanov (2006), 'Distinguishing Limited Liability from Moral Hazard in a Model of Entrepreneurship', Journal of Political Economy, 114 (1), 100-144 -- Anna L. Paulson and Robert Townsend (2004), 'Entrepreneurship and Financial Constraints in Thailand', Journal of Corporate Finance, 10, 229-62 -- Murat F. Iyigun and Ann L. Owen (1999), 'Entrepreneurs, Professionals and Growth', Journal of Economic Growth, 4, June, 213-32 -- Christian Ahlin and Neville Jiang (2008), 'Can Micro-Credit Bring Development?', Journal of Development Economics, 86, 1-21 -- Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff (2008), 'Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXXIII (4), November, 1329-72 -- Signe-Mary McKernan (2002), 'The Impact of Microcredit Programs on Self-Employment Profits: Do Noncredit Program Aspects Matter?', Review of Economics and Statistics, 84 (1), February, 93-115 -- Christopher Woodruff and Rene Zenteno (2007), 'Migration Networks and Microenterprises in Mexico', Journal of Development Economics, 82, 509-28 -- Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2002), 'The Regulation of Entry', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXVII (1), February, 1-37 -- Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven and Raghuram Rajan (2006), 'Entry Regulation as a Barrier to Entrepreneurship', Journal of Financial Economics, 82, 591-629 -- Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirg�u�c-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic (2005), 'Financial and Legal Constraints to Growth: Does Firm Size Matter?', Journal of Finance, LX (1), February, 137-77 -- Leo Sleuwaegen and Micheline Goedhuys (2002), 'Growth of Firms in Developing Countries, Evidence from C�ote d'Ivoire', Journal of Development Economics, 68, 117-35 -- Luc Laeven and Christopher Woodruff (2007), 'The Quality of the Legal System, Firm Ownership, and Firm Size', Review of Economics and Statistics, 89 (4), November, 601-14 -- John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff (2002), 'The Central Role of Entrepreneurs in Transition Economies', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16 (3), Summer, 153-70 -- Daniel Berkowitz and John E. Jackson (2006), 'Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Income Distributions in Poland and Russia', Journal of Comparative Economics, 34, 338-56 -- Simon Johnson, John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff (2002), 'Property Rights and Finance', American Economic Review, 92 (5), 1335-56

Robert Cull and Lixin Colin Xu (2005), 'Institutions, Ownership, and Finance: The Determinants of Profit Reinvestment Among Chinese Firms', Journal of Financial Economics, 77, 117-46 -- Simeon Djankov, Yingyi Qian, G�erard Roland and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (2006), 'Entrepreneurship in China and Russia Compared', Journal of the European Economic Association, 4 (2-3), April-May, 352-65 -- Raymond J. Fisman (2003), 'Ethnic Ties and the Provision of Credit: Relationship-Level Evidence from African Firms', Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 3 (1), Article 4, i-iii, 1-18 -- Mike Burkart, Fausto Panunzi and Andrei Shleifer (2003), 'Family Firms', Journal of Finance, LVIII (5), October, 2167-201 -- Marianne Bertrand, Simon Johnson, Krislert Samphantharak and Antoinette Schoar (2008), 'Mixing Family with Business: A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them', Journal of Financial Economics, 88, 466-98 -- William J. Baumol (1990), 'Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive and Destructive', Journal of Political Economy, 98 (5), Part 1, October, 893-921 -- Kevin M. Murphy, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1991), 'The Allocation of Talent: Implications for Growth', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106 (2), May, 503-30 -- Mara Faccio (2006), 'Politically Connected Firms', American Economic Review, 96, March, 369-86 -- Raymond Fisman (2001), 'Estimating the Value of Political Connections', American Economic Review, 91 (4), September, 1095-102 -- Stijn Claessens, Erik Feijen and Luc Laeven (2008), 'Political Connections and Preferential Access to Finance: The Role of Campaign Contributions', Journal of Financial Economics, 88, 554-80

This essential collection contains the most influential articles written over the past two decades that help us to understand the role of entrepreneurs in the development process, both theoretically and empirically. These important papers span a wide methodological range, from theoretical models, over cross-country studies, to firm- and household-level studies, utilizing both regression analysis and simulation techniques. Professor Beck has written an insightful introduction which provides an overview of the area of entrepreneurship in developing countries.