, female-headed households in Afghanistan, as part of a partnership between community, nonprofit, and private organizations …

This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth … that private-order institutions have not historically substituted for public-order ones in enabling markets to function …, clarify the growth effects of other institutions, including contract-enforcement mechanisms, guilds, communities, serfdom, and …

This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth … that private-order institutions have not historically substituted for public-order ones in enabling markets to function …, clarify the growth effects of other institutions, including contract-enforcement mechanisms, guilds, communities, serfdom, and …

In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even if they have democratic … positions. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more … voters become part of the corrupt system. Well-functioning financial institutions, in turn, can increase the political …

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

This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment …

This paper examines the effect of trade integration and comparative advantage on one of a country's institutions, which …