have a mediating positive effect on FDI within country income groups, whereby countries with better-developed institutions …

identify a link between sectoral growth asymmetries and the quality of domestic governance institutions. Especially differences …

endowments significantly influenced serfdom. Institutions, we conclude, are shaped partly by economic fundamentals. …

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do … institutions. When new technologies emerge, uncertainty results from a lack of understanding how the technology will fit with … prevailing ideologies and institutions. This uncertainty discourages investment in institutions and the cultural capital …

We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure … institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …