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 …

economic performance and political institutions. We study these two directions of causation in a broad cross-country panel that … attendance and religious beliefs are positively related to education (thereby conflicting with theories in which religion … and lower fertility. We investigate the effects of official state religions, government regulation of the religion market …

differences through the dynamics of saving and investment. We posit that the drivers of economic development include institutions …

In this paper we revisit the relationship between institutions, human capital and development. We argue that empirical … models that treat institutions and human capital as exogenous are misspecified both because of the usual omitted variable … focus on historically-determined differences in human capital and control for the effect of institutions, the impact of …

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 exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on … different associated institutions. The choice of colonization strategy was, at least in part, determined by whether Europeans … likely to set up worse (extractive) institutions. These early institutions persisted to the present. We document evidence …

negatively related to civil conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. In the reduced form regression they find that higher rainfall is … associated with less conflict. Ciccone (2010) claims that this conclusion is 'erroneous' and argues that higher rainfall levels … are actually linked to more conflict. In this paper we show that the results in Ciccone's paper are based on incorrect …

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