This paper investigates the influence of institutional quality on crypto adoption in the country with regard to the level of financial literacy of country's population. The results show that in countries with lower financial literacy, institutions have a greater influence on cryptocurrency...

This paper explores French assets returns predictability within a VAR setup. Using quarterly data from 1970Q4 to 2006Q4, it turns out that bonds, equities and bills returns are actually predictable. This feature implies that the investment horizon does indeed matter in the asset allocation. The...

We start out from the hypothesis that limited government leads to low uncertainty and low transaction costs. If political institutions affect the degree of uncertainty and transaction costs, we formally show they should affect the steady state level of income per capita. The impact of...