Foreword -- 1. Putting the Tropics on the academic map: The Raison d’être of the SEIGOP Conference (Manisha Agarwal, Thomas Chong, Emiel L. Eijdenberg, Janice Lim, Maxwell Low, Malobi Mukherjee, Erica Nee, May Tan-Mullins, Jacob Wood) -- 2. Seeking a sustainable technology of governance to...

This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...

My main purpose is to connect the issue of property rights to the set of questions concerning economic growth and the long-term determinants of the improvements in material well-being. To anticipate what will be my main conclusion, it is that property rights and economic growth are not...

Huvudtesen i denna studie är att innovationer driver den ekonomiska utvecklingen, att innovationer skapas i teknologiska system och omvandlas till ekonomisk verksamhet i kompetensblock, och att industriell dynamik uppstår i konfrontationen mellan utbudssidan (teknologiska system) och...