This paper presents an integrated overview of the literature linking institutions, financial development and economic … impact of institutions on growth through financial development. …

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 …

This paper studies the effects of bilateral foreign aid on conflict escalation and de-escalation. We make three major …-sided and multifaceted nature of conflict. Second, we develop a novel empirical framework. We propose a dynamic ordered probit … aid on conflict by predicting bilateral aid flows based on electoral outcomes of donor countries that are exogenous to …

Studies that examine the impact of food prices on conflict usually assume that (all) changes in international food … commodity prices, we show that this assumption could seriously distort estimations of the impact on conflict in African regions …. Specifically, we show that increases in food prices that are caused by harvest shocks outside Africa raise conflict significantly …