A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established …

Europe. We draw upon data from the last three decades of waves of the European Values Survey and we examine the impact of …

The paper reexamines Lipset's theory of democratization, by distinguishing the role of (economic) development from that … explanation of the positive relationship between economic development, education, and democratization, and of the negative … relationship between inequality and democratization. Furthermore, we obtain new insights on the resources-curse hypothesis and on …

in the host countries, enhances FDI flows. On the other hand, host-country relative corporate-transparency diminishes the …

-and-mortar stores. Using data collected before and after a transparency regulation went into effect in the Israeli food retail market … in price dispersion and a 4% to 5% drop in prices following the transparency regulation. The price drop varied across …

quality of governance) and the degree of market segmentation (depending on the level of ethnic fractionalization). The model …