The ratings of political institutions are well-known and widely used in academic literature. These ratings are mostly … indices predict economic growth better than those commonly used, primarily because they include information about institutions …

focuses on innovation, high levels of tolerance, and strong institutions, while the latter focuses on investment, a lower …-level of tolerance, and weak political institutions. Institutions do matter – they seem to be a causal mechanism in the … relationship between tolerance and modernization. Institutions play a significant role in the tolerant model, where a post …

embeddedness of retailer-supplier relationships in emerging Russian markets. Based on Baker, Faulkner, and Fisher’s theory of the … continuation of markets ties, the presented paper focuses on the influence of power, institutional forces, and competition. The …

environmental factors (e.g. institutions, culture) on one hand, and accumulated human capital on the other. To what extent is an … individual’s trust driven by contemporaneous institutions and environmental conditions and to what extent is it determined by the …

Institutions affect investment decisions, including investments in human capital. Hence institutions are relevant for … the allocation of talent. Good market-supporting institutions attract talent to productive value-creating activities … individuals are particularly sensitive in their career choices to the quality of institutions, and test these predictions on a …

institutions for political (democratic rules) and economic (free market entry) competitiveness. To analyze this relationship … economic institutions exert cumulative positive impact upon health (even if their separate effects are negative or …

subdiscipline’s objects of study, such as social institutions, social networks, daily interactions, childhood, cultural memory …

anti-Americanism. The former involves negative attitudes towards American culture and its global spread, whereas the latter …