We examine the impact of e-procurement on economic growth. To this end, we exploit an ambitious implementation of large-scale mandatory e-procurement platform in New South Wales and Western Australia. By matching pre-reform growth dynamics and its covariates with the rest of the world, we...

We examine the effect radical institutional change on long-run growth through the case of the partition of Friuli Venezia Giulia in 1947 between Italy and Yugoslavia and the subsequent integration in two distinct institutional regimes. Friuli Venezia Giulia's long-run development trajectory is...

As sustainability concerns advocate for a rapid deployment of circular economy, preserving and recovering the so-called ‘critical raw materials’ and minimising plastics waste, the European Commission issued an EU action plan for the Circular Economy in 2015 with two subsequent reports on its...

Blockchain technology has taken off rapidly in the last decade, as blockchain- based applications have expanded across sectors and acquired substantial global user support. This rise has been accelerated in the domain of cryptocurrencies, as one of blockchains’ most famous (or infamous)...

I examine the contribution of institutional breakdowns to long-run development, drawing on Argentina’s unique departure from a rich country on the eve of World War I to an underdeveloped one today. The empirical strategy is based on building a counterfactual scenario to examine the path of...

Long-term regional convergence hypothesis is examined for 32 Mexican states in a regional growth model with poverty traps using a new dataset on regional income inequality for the period 1940-2011. Although zero-growth poverty trap hypothesis is rejected for 28 out of 32 states, the evidence...

Este artículo investiga qué tipo de cambios institucionales tienen un mayor impacto en el crecimiento económico de largo plazo: las reformas de carácter tecnocrático orientadas a la economía o la democratización. Con este objetivo, para el caso de España, examinamos el Plan de...

Este documento estima el efecto de la calidad de las instituciones en el patrón de especialización productiva observado en España en el período 1999-2014 a nivel local. La investigación parte de la observación de que la actividad económica en España muestra un fuerte patrón de...

En este documento se estudia por primera vez el impacto de la complejidad regulatoria a escala sectorial en España en diversas medidas de eficiencia económica. El análisis se fundamenta en una innovadora base de datos que ha clasificado 206.777 normas españolas, tanto por sector de actividad...