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 …

Available wisdom suggests that a negative relationship prevails between economic freedom and perceived corruption among … economic freedom in influencing perceived corruption. The firm-level data helps to explore the relationship between economic … freedom across Indian states and the perceived corruption in the formal sector. A statistically significant negative …

product and labor markets and the general absence of regulation in the economy. The first approach employs meta-analysis data … data collection we get a robust result relating higher levels of market orientation as proxied by the Economic Freedom …

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 …

, provided that they trust political institutions. Our findings suggest that one solution to the recent electoral backlash of … ; redistribution ; market liberalization ; trust …

The relationship between economic and political liberalization has received a great deal of attention lately, yet the … function of de jure financial liberalization, this non-linearity obtains. -- Reform reversals ; political liberalization … ; economic liberalization ; financial reform …

protection leads to high decentralized expropriation. We show that improvements in governance institutions that facilitate … welfare when weak institutions lead to weak property rights protection, but reduce it otherwise. …

entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of … extent of corruption. A cluster of institutional indicators representing 'market freedom' is only significant in some … specifications. Freedom from corruption is significantly related to entrepreneurial entry, especially when the richest countries are …

plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of …