More than 110 Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), many of them developing countries and least-developed countries (LDCs), are negotiating a plurilateral Agreement on Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD). In contract to existing bilateral investment treaties that establish...

What is the long-term effect of theocracy on religiosity and pro-religious political preferences? I exploit a quasi-experiment in Italy, where a large river constituted the border between the theocratic Papal States and a secular, progressive state for three centuries. However, inheritance norms...