between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …

labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries … across countries. We discuss some possible reasons for these differences based on labour market institutions …

Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive … from being over, and classification of institutions into "good" and "bad" might be premature …

Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether … commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms …. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated conjectures. The first concerns whether the political system …

This paper investigates the role of policies and institutions for aggregate labour market dynamics during the recent …

benefit system and active labor market policies, taxation and wage setting) we include further institutions which can be …

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 …

institutions. We review work with a theoretical, empirical, and historical bent to assess the presence of a two-way causal effect … between culture and institutions …

-enforcers, we develop a conceptual framework that highlights how political institutions are instrumental in defining the choice … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …