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. …

institutional measures. We establish the double causality between institutional strength and a more equal distribution of income and …

that at the end of planning, transition countries had substantially different endowments from their contemporaneous non-transition … transition in 2002-05, poor transition economies differ much more from their non-transition counterparts, in respect to both good … and bad aspects of the planning legacy, than do relatively rich transition countries. However, the persistent beneficial …

This Paper asks the question of the impact of institutions on trade and tries to estimate the potential for trade … destruction effect. Furthermore, institutions matter, and the convergence of institutional variables towards the EU standards …

influence using data for about 4000 firms in 25 transition countries. Our results show that (a) lobbying and corruption are …

completely after we control for aggregate measures of economic development and quality of institutions. Informal institutions …

for analysing and evaluating both macroeconomic policy and the development of policy-making institutions to put each of … framework so that it is more generally useful in analysing developments in the other transition economies. The approach we take … basis of both the development of economic institutions and performance, our overall ranking is Czech Republic, Slovakia …

We survey the empirical literature analysing the process of enterprise restructuring in transition economies. The …

theme of the new research is that institutions exert a profound influence on economic development. We argue that, to … understand capitalist institutions, one needs to understand the basic trade-off between the costs of disorder and those of … dictatorship. We then apply this logic to study the structure of efficient institutions, the consequences of colonial …