Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …

The paper aims to examine the role of institutions relative to economic policy and geography in explaining the … indicate that institutions matter in the context of specific economic policy mixes and geography related factors illustrated by … disease burden, etc. It demonstrates that relative influence of institutions varies across stages of development. …

economic policies and institutions of newly acceded WTO members. It shows that the process of obtaining WTO membership, under … certain circumstances, can lead to a positive improvement in domestic econoic policies and institutions. The difference …

The paper uses nonparametric methodology to examine the role of institutions in understanding differential levels of … impact of institutions on development. The preliminary cross-country findings show that (i) institutional quality positively … parametric results established in the literature, the nonparametric analysis lends further support to the view that institutions …

of its detrimental impact on the formation of domestic institutions, such as the security of private property, the …

decision makers. These responses, in turn influenced by institutions and instrumental freedoms, ultimately affect the dynamics …

exercises indicate that recent findings of the conduciveness of good institutions, and, to some extent trade, on levels of TFP …

associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …

from institutions, and to some extent, geography, on long-run prosperity and TFP, may be thus explained. …