institutions on development, the costs of fractionalization, and research on the policies of social inclusion around the world. …

, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. Sound institutions … the quality of their institutions and economic governance over the past decade, it is crucial that they preserve the …

institutions have been found to be decisive for the break out of stagnation and for explaining cross-country income differences by …

The so-called 'deep determinants' of economic growth and development (namely, geography, institutions, and integration …

combine data on institutions with data on economic growth in order to determine which institutions are especially conductive … to growth. Our analysis is framed by the approach of a hierarchy of institutions in which political institutions provide … a framework in which contemporary political, economic and societal institutions develop and foster economic growht. This …

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 …

Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty … eradication effect of institutions is through income-average as opposed to income-inequality. We discuss the confirmed findings in …

Over the last couple of decades, it has become a commonplace to claim that institutions matter" for economic … development. Yet, institutions are not exogenous but the result of hu-man action. It is argued here that the values and norms held … by substantial parts of society’s members are an important determinant of its institutions. It is further argued that …

institutions precede crises and, interestingly, positive reforms occur thereafter. Strong institutions shorten the duration of … interaction effect suggests they can be offset by appropriate institutions. …

We study economies where improving the quality of institutions - modeled as improving contract enforcement - requires …