We propose and apply methods to quantify the impact of national institutions on international trade and development. We … are able to identify the direct impact of country-specific institutions on international trade within the structural … gravity framework. Our approach naturally addresses the prominent issue of endogenous institutions. The empirical analysis …

and bad growth prospects, and that these adverse effects are more severe in volatile countries with bad institutions and … a resource boom reinforces rent grabbing and civil conflict especially if institutions are bad, induces corruption …

the historical determinants of institutions with the sizeable direct impact of geographic endowments on development …

economic development, notably institutions and geography. This paper sheds a different light on these determinants. We use … spatial econometrics to analyse the importance of the geography of institutions. We show that it is not only absolute … for a country's gdp per capita. Apart from a country's own institutions, institutions in neighboring countries turn out to …

Within the fundamental determinants of cross-country income inequality, ‘humanly devised' political institutions … inequality explainable by differences in political institutions, we decompose annual cross-country Gini coefficients for 95 … countries (representing 85 percent of the world population) from 1960-2012. Since 1988, inequality has marginally decreased …

Small Developing States (SDS) face substantial challenges in achieving sustainable development. Many of these … countries to the impact of climate change and natural disasters. Meeting SDS sustainable development goals goes hand …-in-hand with building their climate resilience. But the additional costs to meet development and resilience objectives are …

-challenged world, and the importance of infrastructure investment geared toward such systems changes. The key policies to enable the …

this is the first attempt to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy over such a long period and due to …