comprehensively characterize the impact of monotheism on early economic development. Monotheist religions produced a paradigm shift in … sociopolitical institutions because they (a) involve a strong degree of increasing returns to scale and the natural monopoly powers … monotheistic religions aided early development both in the West and the Near East until the advent of the Industrial Revolution …

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … interactions between trust and economic development in the realms of finance, innovation, the organization of firms, the labor … market and the product market. The last part reviews recent progress to identify how institutions and policies can affect …

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … of countries' political institutions. We estimate the effect of political institutions on the diffusion of three … institutions for technologies rather than for industries, we reveal important growth opportunities for developing countries and …

Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led …

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of … highlight and empirically validate a new transmission channel from endogenously generated institutions on economic development …

-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 …

sustainable economic development …