This paper investigates institutions for the creation and transmission of knowledge as efficient resource allocation … society to preserve two different institutions, partly rival and partly complementary, and examines the major policy …

The aim of this paper is to discuss the role played by international institutions in achieving effective International … coalitional bargaining to illustrate the main issues. We argue that international institutions can intervene in the framing of the …

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …

gender gap in math is due to social stereotypes; (2) institutions can durably modify these stereotypes. …

of institutions. In this paper, I consider the case of firm concentration in Italy and its impact on local development. A … large and growing literature has argued in favour of persisting effects of past institutions on current outcomes. Hence, in …

this paper we frame our starting question within the general debate about the importance of good/bad institutions as … are in fact driven by the presence of growth enhancing institutions. Our empirical analysis exploits newly available … institutions is important for growth. Yet our results strongly suggest that the weight of tourism in an economy is an independent …

I study the coexistence of formal and informal finance in underdeveloped credit markets. While weak institutions …