institutions. For a panel of OECD countries, we find that anticompetitive product market regulations are associated with lower MFP … levels and that higher innovation intensity and greater openness go in tandem with higher MFP. We also find that the impact … of product market regulations on MFP may depend on the level of labour market regulations. Better institutions, a more …

Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the … industrial firms in China, we show that firms in locations historically affected by the CMC rules exhibit higher innovation …

dynamics of oil price volatility by examining interactions between oil market and exchange rate in selected MENA countries … selected MENA countries. These findings have important implications both from the investor's and from the policy …

regimes, using data on eight MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries over the 1984-2016 period. Specifically, we run … role in determining the exchange rate regime in MENA countries: a democratic political regime and a low level of corruption … implications for policy makers in MENA countries …

intensifies. We find that the better the institutions and the more competitive the banking sector, the higher the bank's incentive …

We document that trust in public institutions - and particularly trust in banks, business and government - has declined … institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy of the Great Recession, and those countries whose unemployment grew … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …

countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone Habsburg border have been sharing common formal institutions for a century …