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. …

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

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 …

-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 …

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

geography and these institutions, we posit, is via the effect of transparency on the state's extractive capacity. We apply our …

We investigate the role of national institutions on regional development in a novel framework. We exploit the fact that … institutions. Using both a matching-type and a regression discontinuity approach we show that differences in countrywide … correlation between formal national institutions and economic development has to be carefully interpreted. …

We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development … ethnic homelands with different legacies of pre-colonial political institutions. …