presentday institutions, but are also partly independent of institutional quality. <p> …

affected by quality of governance - in particular by the presence of high-grade institutions delivering services enhancing …

the quality of a country’s economic institutions. For instance, distance from the equator in latitude degrees is … understanding for this type of regularities, this article reviews the growing empirical literature on geography and institutions, as …

This survey paper has three themes; a microeconomic analysis of institutions, an institutional analysis of … institutional theory into account. Institutions are defined as the long-run rules of the economy that have the character of public …

between 1500-1830, strong capitalist institutions were largely non-existent in the Western world. During the scrable for … Africa, starting in 1885, good institutions were an option, but the disease environment had then drastically changed. We show …/Neo-European subsample, the proposed relationship between settler mortality and institutions is weak or rejected for Latin America and Africa …

trust and social capital will have its greatest impact on economic performance when court institutions are relatively weak … of institutional strength and that the effect of social capital vanishes when institutions are very strong. When we bring …

In the growing literature on the creation of institutions, the theories emphasizing colonial and legal origin …

capture and how they are constructed is something that is not given enough attention. Institutions and their measures are …

usually is accompanied by valuable rents that tend to distort property rights institutions. Our empirical analysis further …