Koeppl, Thorsten; Monnet, Cyril; Quintin, Erwan - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2008
model institutional quality as the degree to which obligations associated with exchanging capital can be enforced …. Establishing a positive level of enforcement requires an aggregate investment of capital that is no longer available for production …. When capital endowments are more unequally distributed, the bigger dispersion in marginal products makes it optimal to …