This paper provides a critical view of the cross country literature on the impact of labour market institutions and … policies on the evolving pattern of unemployment in OECD countries. Such widely used indicators as the generosity of … unemployment insurance or the strength of trade unions are neither strongly correlated individually with unemployment nor …

results are best understood - and can be related to monopoly-theory results - using the fact that consumer surplus equals the …

growth was high investment, and that this high investment was made possible by certain institutions that were particularly … well suited to reconstruction and growth. On the domestic side, these institutions led to high investment rates and …

exploration is affected by the quality of countries’ institutions. A global data set on the precise location of oil wells and … outcome and lend support to the hypothesis that institutions are a fundamental determinant of economic performance.   …

development emphasizes the central role of institutions, surprisingly little work looks at how institutions matter for health … it is unclear what the relevant theory is in this area.  We carry out a formal exploratory analysis to identify both the …

"deep" or determinants of productivity and capital intensity, such as institutions, trade, geography and human capital.  In … prone to fail to satisfy the exclusion restriction.  Consequently I provide evidence that the theory of colonial origins is … studies have failed to account for substitutable roles between institutions and openness.  In the final race, however, human …

perceptions and expectations. The dynamics of this process can be modeled using evolutionary game theory, which predict that some …