Comment on how extractive institutions affect:

a) the return-to-entrepreneurship schedule.
b) the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship schedule.

What will be an ideal response?


a) By creating insecure property rights and limiting legal back up, extractive institutions make entrepreneurship less profitable and shift the return-to-entrepreneurship schedule leftward.
b) By creating entry barriers, extractive institutions make entry more costly and shift the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship schedule upward.

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