We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure … institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …

firm-specific bilateral connections. We find that institutions that enhance investor protection and reduce corruption …

In this paper we study how differences in the quality of countries’ institutions affect the impact of natural hazards in … output distance frontier model to assess two important aspects of the relation-ship between institutions and hazard impacts … institutions of higher quality indeed correlate with higher disaster relief efficiencies. Most important are indicators of good …

investment behaviour is to anticipate the implementation of a climate policy by roughly 10 years. Investing in innovation ahead …. This is especially relevant for China, whose recent and foreseeable trends of investments in innovation are consistent with …

The Brazil-Taxation dispute concerns the complaints taken to the World Trade Organisation by the European Union and …