institutions which drive this relationship using data from the Varieties of Democracy project. We sketch how incentives and … opportunities as well as the distribution of political power shaped by underlying institutions, in combination with the extent of … selection into institutional change, and run horse races between underlying institutions. We find that freedom of expression …

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 …

, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial … unleashing technological change and through rituals, legal institutions, political economy, and conflict. Synthesizing a disjoint …—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that …

The quality of institutions occupies a central place in the set of non-economic factors influencing macroeconomic … institutions. It is shown that the main such force or source of institutional change is culture, interpreted in a broad sense … culture as a source of formation of the quality of national institutions and a factor of sustainable economic dynamics is …

moderating variables are mainly institutions and the European Sovereignty Index. Shared sovereignty and its specific categories …-country institutions on member-country economic growth. This focus and the nature of the investigation constitute the originality of the … present study and reduce the gap in the literature about the effects of sovereignty, institutions, and capital spillovers (FDI …

We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model …

endogeneity issues. We also contribute to the literature by using various measures of institutions to identify which aspects of …