Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient political and economic institutions in response to changing economic … productivity, cultural beliefs and institutions. In our model, production shocks that benefit one sector of the economy may induce …

-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. …

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do … institutions. When new technologies emerge, uncertainty results from a lack of understanding how the technology will fit with … prevailing ideologies and institutions. This uncertainty discourages investment in institutions and the cultural capital …

Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions are a main reason. The EU anchor thesis …

institutions. We improve and expand upon previous studies by (i) examining decade-long migration flows that (ii) include flows not … migrants. Once economic freedoms are controlled for, measures of political institutions do not enter significantly into our …

to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North Korean refugees and South Korean students … attitudes toward political and economic institutions. Our experiments employ widely used dictator and trust games, with four …. Experimental behavior and support for institutions differ substantially between and within groups. North Korean refugees prefer …

satisfaction gap between post-socialist and advanced countries and the role of political institutions in explaining this gap. My … and may have even reversed it in the post-crisis years. As institutions and macroeconomic conditions continue to improve …

Do institutions and culture affect environmental values? In this article we analyze 1,041 environmental valuations of … 223 wetlands in 38 developing countries, to examine the effect of institutions and culture on environmental values. We … wetland valuations. Understanding these important and varying effects of institutions and culture on wetland valuations is …

Blanchard and Wolfers (2000) to analyse the role of the interaction of macroeconomic shocks and labour market institutions for …

commitment to socialism reflects rent-seeking, a type of unproductive entrepreneurship. Once institutions change radically, their …