deal with poor governance. We find that these various aspects of market familiarity, which can interact together, are …

intuition provided by our analytical model by empirically showing that the positive impact of good public governance on foreign …

intuitions provided by our analytical model by empirically showing that the positive impact of good public governance on foreign …

intuitions provided by our analytical model by empirically showing that the positive impact of good public governance on foreign … deterred much more by bad public governance conditions than could have been inferred from an unconditional estimation of the … effects of public governance on FDI. …

and informational distance (proxied by distance), real sector variables, financial variables and institutional quality are …

We empirically examine the heterogeneity in the effects of multiple dimensions of distance on trade across detailed … categories into an, a priori unknown, number of segments based on estimated coefficients of multiple dimensions of distance in … the gravity equation. We find that institutional distance, whether countries belong to the same trade block and especially …

(english) New factors such as governance, ownership and citizen’s participation are now a central focus of development … to be thought of as extra-economic dimensions such as subjective forms of poverty, quality of institutions (especially … public institutions) and type of political regime or, more generally speaking, the society’s system of values. To meet this …

This thesis consists of three chapters on the choice of institutional governance. The first chapter provides empirical … costs by helping to foster a productive governance atmosphere for the contracting parties. The second chapter explores … whether the choice of institutions depends on the historical experience and the stock of knowledge of economic agents. We …

“Good” governance is often promoted for economic growth, but its impact on natural resource use in developing and … transitional economies is not well understood. For example, many scholars promote improved governance as a means to slow resource … use, whereas others have found that better governance increases extractive resource activities. In this paper we use …

development partners can make a difference in promoting the three policy objectives. Innovations in governance for better … choices. International financial institutions and the donor community can provide financial lubricants for cooperation, as …