-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …

investigate this idea in a simple model of regime change and show that the regions where the prevailing institutions are less …

(Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the cultural values that complement the prevailing institutions. As a result … institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …

all. Our empirical evidence does, however, support not only the "primacy of institutions" view, but also the important …

creates continuous and dichotomous indices. We use the SVM indices to investigate the effect of democratic institutions on …

contemporary economic growth. The negative effect of ethnic inequality is caused by increasing conflict and decreasing public goods …

receiving territories are characterized by cultural traits in conflict with those embedded in the imported institutions. We … country. This paper provides the first evidence that the positive effect of importing good institutions cancels out when the … French institutions in Protestant areas. Then, using hand-collected data on pre-Napoleonic reigns we show that kingdoms with …

of the impact of conflict point to negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth of -12 percent on average over 2011 …-18, resulting in a GDP contraction to about one-third of the 2010 level. In post-conflict simulation scenarios, the growth drivers … stable resolution of the conflict is achieved …