single-tier organizations, even though they offer more scope for organizational conflict and have more executives that can be … influenced. These benefits derive from two effects. First, part of the conflict in multi-divisional organizations takes place on …

Current orthodoxy suggests that the Industrial Revolution began in Europe because European institutions promoted …

Drawing on the recent literature on economic institutions and the origins of economic development, we offer a political … institution building, we also show the importance of institutions in explaining the variation in economic development and growth …

institutions, and are robust to the use of alternative data and estimation techniques. …

. Active pre-1800 parliaments also enhanced the quality of democratic institutions in the nineteenth and early twentieth …

International trade can have profound effects on domestic institutions. We examine this proposition in the context of … institutions that facilitated longdistance trade e.g., the colleganza. However, starting in 1297, a small group of particularly …

a major role in the determination of this historical event, but that the quality of institutions also mattered. We … evaluate separately the impact of political institutions linked to democracy and suffrage and of those institutions more … find that both sets of institutions contributed to this event, even after controlling for their potential endogeneity …