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 …

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 …

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 …

A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a … are less supportive of democracy than males in a number of countries. Using data for 20 Sub-Saharan African countries, we …

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 … the country's institutions. Our interpretation is the following. Agents lend their taxes to a leader with imperfect … information on the leader's type and the underlying capacity of institutions to monitor her. A misbehavior is then interpreted as …

are focusing the institutional efficiency and institutions as regulating organisms. After presenting the theoretic …

North's evolving ideas about institutions and explains how North's work shaped the emerging field of new institutional …