countries, as suggested by recent studies on the supremacy of institutions. Our empirical results show that the supremacy of … institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face very specific development problems. Given their geographic and economic … empirical evidence that appears to imply the supremacy of institutions. …

countries with worse institutions relative to the origin country. Additionally, institutional distance matters more for …

institutions and the institutional setting. For the polar cases of liberal economies and Scandinavian coordinated market economies …

. Three dimensions of institutional quality—legislative, administrative, and judicative institutions—are analyzed on the basis …

financial crises to improve their institutions and grow up to financial stability. …

I reconsider the primacy of institutions over geography as an explanatory factor of cross-country differences in … specifications and samples. Unbiased estimates of the relative performance effects of institutions and malaria prevalence are … difficult to obtain due to a lack of independent instrumental variables. Conditional on a restricted effect of institutions, my …

The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international … institutions, scrutiny of achievement, and teacher influence on teaching methods. A large influence of teacher unions on curriculum … are not caused by differences in schooling resources but are mainly due to differences in educational institutions. …

This paper investigates the quality of property rights and long-term economic growth in an international cross …-section of countries in 1975-1995. The empirical tests indicate that the impact of private property rights on growth is positive … remarkable: A doubling in the index of the quality of property rights leads to a more than doubling in per capita incomes. In …