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...

Can stringent labor laws be efficient? Possibly, if they provide firms with a commitment device to not punish short-run failures and thereby incentivize the pursuit of value-maximizing innovative activities. In this paper, we provide empirical evidence that strong labor laws indeed appear to...

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...