. According to our preferred interpretation, these events provide evidence that, under weak institutions, popular mobilization and …

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and economic development. It discusses the various … institutions and policies can affect trust and promote pro-social behaviors. …

the answer may be no is that countries pursuing poor macroeconomic policies also have weak ‘institutions’, including … political institutions that do not constrain politicians and political elites, ineffective enforcement of property rights for … more ‘extractive’ institutions from their colonial past were more likely to experience high volatility and economic crises …

We propose a general theory that explains the extent of the state and accounts for related institutions as byproducts …

, demographic, geographic and institutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and … institutions are accounted for. …

, which reforms are best? We address this question by empirically investigating the effects of institutions on financial … frictions, institutions affect investment. We find that improved corporate governance (e.g., less severe informational problems …

-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial … different country-level institutions, offers a regression discontinuity framework. After identifying the partitioned ethnicities … we document a positive cross-sectional association between national institutions and regional economic development …

Can international migration promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability? In …