democracy. In addition, public deficit volatility tends to be magnified for small countries, in the outcome of hyper …

necessary. Inequality in endowments and incomes prolongs the absence of good institutions and delays democratization. Conversely …We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process … of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the appropriability of rents in form of a state of law …

Die internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit verfolgt zwei Ziele: Armutsreduzierung und Demokratisierung. Auf der … weniger Demokratisierung – und umgekehrt. Dieser Trade-Off lässt sich auflösen, wenn es gelingt, bei diktatorischen Regimes … democratization. Using a rational choice approach to non-democratic regimes, this paper argues that there is a trade-off between these …

The paper tries to improve our understanding on the role of institutions in development by critically examining the … current orthodox discourse on institutions and highlighting some of its key problems. After discussing some definitional …

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which … emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which … emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …

democracy enhances entry rates for small sized firms but reduces them for medium or large ones. …

We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization …

simple model of transition and democratization is presented wherein we show that the effectiveness of repression by the … country to start a transition process towards democratization is not necessarily the one nearest to the free world. …