We extend the trade restrictiveness index approach to the case of market imperfections and domestic regulations …

also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy …

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher …

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 …

Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International …

Do budget institutions play a role in explaining why government effectiveness is higher in some advanced countries than …

economically substantive and particularly relevant to economies with unsound institutions …

to invest in these public-good components, while business-stealing tends to reduce the capacity for financing new …

We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of …