Do institutions spatially affect growth? By employing a neoclassical growth model with institutional controls and … augmenting the model with a formal spatial framework, this study finds evidence that institutions has spatial spillover effect on …

, demography and institutions). Thus, at all stages of development, forcing economic production to spread evenly across areas is … response should be comprehensively total: institutions that unite, infrastructure that connects, interventions that target …

developed and transition economies. The results confirm that good institutions have positive and similar effects on productivity …This paper argues that institutional quality has both direct and indirect (moderating) effects on productivity of … across the board. Moreover, they moderate the relationship between foreign technological spillovers and productivity …

There is an important literature on the causal relationship between the quality of institutions and macroeconomic … performance. This paper studies this link at the micro level by looking at the productivity impacts of land rights. Whereas … endogeneity of land titles. Results indicate that de jure rights (i.e., titles) have no impact on productivity and de facto rights …

We examine the impact of the values respect for others and responsibility on productivity and the accumulation of … is substantial. Respect for others works primarily through productivity whereas responsibility is important to investment … in physical and human capital. We also show that respect and responsibility are embedded in institutions and may overcome …

By comparing the development of landownership in China and England, this paper explores what were behind their … early China has established a unique economic system that allowed free alienation of land, but it has been trying to check … strengthening and expanding of patriarchal clan system. The different development paths of China and England show the different …

Imperial China used an empire-wide system of examinations to select civil servants. Using a semiparametric matching …

entry and exit of firms affect performance and labor productivity. …

functions to assess the contribution of combning IT with de/centralization to firmlevel productivity under different corporate …