the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data … the input side. We therefore introduce a new input indicator based on the authors’ mentions in the institutions’ papers …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide …

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

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 what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the … factors in which institutions affect market integration more than market integration affects institutions. It was …

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

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

institutions precede crises and, interestingly, positive reforms occur thereafter. Strong institutions shorten the duration of … interaction effect suggests they can be offset by appropriate institutions. …

-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. …