After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be … divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of literature argues that this supports the key … literature describes are the more stable political institutions, and these have been found to play no role in empirical growth …

This paper discusses links between policy settings, institutions and economic growth in OECD countries on the basis of … results confirm the importance for growth of R&D activity, the macroeconomic environment, trade openness and well developed …

I investigate the link between business regulatory reforms and economic growth in 172 countries. I create a five year … regulatory reforms increase economic growth, using data on micro-economic reforms. These data do not suffer the endogeneity … issues associated with other datasets on changes in economic institutions. The results provide a robust support for the claim …

the stakes of political competition, and therefore reduce the intensity of the conflict over political power. In … positively influences the willingness of elite groups to invest in property rights institutions, thus providing an economic …

mitigate ethnic conflict is then of primarily importance. This paper builds a simple model of decentralization as an … conflict only when those conditioning factors are controlled for. Furthermore, decentralization dampens all forms of ethnic …

that aims at separating attitudes toward risk, imprecision and conflict and at determining if there is a demand for … under risk than under ambiguity (embracing here imprecision and conflict), revealing that people consider ambiguous … situations as inferior. Furthermore, respondents behave differently under imprecision and conflict. They exhibit a preference for …

remises en cause alors que les règles constitutionnelles permettant de penser la dynamique des institutions semblent avoir …

aftermath of geo-localized social protests in Africa, we find that trust in monitoring institutions and beliefs in social … social conflict can be interpreted as a sudden signal sent on a leader's action from which citizens extract information on … the country's institutions. Our interpretation is the following. Agents lend their taxes to a leader with imperfect …