This study attempts to examine the impact of various institutions on economic growth using panel data for 56 countries over the period 1981–2010. These impacts have been examined at aggregated level for world representative sample as well as for the sample disaggregated by the development...

This study empirically explores the growth effects of rent seeking activity (RSA) for a group of 52 developing/transitional countries, using a dynamic panel data approach. The modeling framework is a Mankiw–Romer–Weil (MRW) conditional convergence model with path dependence and augmented by...