context compared to the Chinese institutional context due to the polycentricity of institutions. The research implications of …

In this paper we use a comparative perspective to explore the ways in which institutions and networks have influenced …

, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more voters are part of the corrupt system … on political outcomes. Well-functioning financial institutions, in turn, increase the political support for anti …

institutions. The characteristics of officials’ clients explain most of the variation for bribery rates, but none for bribe amounts … rates and amounts. The results indicate that the bribery rate is higher at institutions with bribe-prone clients, and that … reduce corruption. Overall, the judiciary and the police are by far the most corrupt institutions. …

completely after we control for aggregate measures of economic development and quality of institutions. Informal institutions …

In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia …

different political approaches to reform shape the ability of societies to build new institutions for economic upgrading. The …-private institutions via adherence to two key principles: a) inclusion of a wide variety of relevant stakeholder groups and b) rules of …

The number of firm bankruptcies is surprisingly low in economies with poor institutions. We study a model of bank …. We show that institutions must improve significantly in order to yield a stable equilibrium in which the optimal number … of firms is liquidated. There is also a range where improving institutions may decrease the number of bad firms …