entrepreneurs want - and less on existing institutions. …

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … interactions between trust and economic development in the realms of finance, innovation, the organization of firms, the labor … market and the product market. The last part reviews recent progress to identify how institutions and policies can affect …

confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 … unified Italian State. Our results suggest that past historical institutions play a significant role on the current public …

This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on … American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the … parliamentary systems (versus presidential) have a strong positive effect on economic development, while ordinary least squares …

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the …

-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near … historical ethnic borders in Sub-Saharan Africa. …

In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development … Africa; (iii) describe the resurgence of technological start-up entrepreneurship in Africa and (iv) call for policy support …

model, calibrated to data for Africa, Latin America and developing Asia, reflects relatively well capital account policies …

This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or … in India. We find that religious minority leaders (Muslims) improve coordination, while majority leaders (Hindus) do not …