The aim of this paper is to determine which country-specific characteristics promote and which impede the adoption of institutions. On the basis of a broad panel of 183 countries for the period between 1996 and 2010, we test whether there are tendencies towards a general improvement and towards...

The paper aims at a conceptual contribution to the normative economic analysis of rural de-velopment (RD) policies. RD is regarded as a problem of interaction between individuals; (lacking) structural change or the (missing) integration of externalities are therefore recon-structed as...

Mitte Dezember 1993 konnte die achte Welthandelsrunde nach siebenjähriger Verhandlungszeit abgeschlossen werden. Die Ergebnisse werden zum 01. Januar bzw. 01. Juli 1995 in Kraft treten. Wesentlichster Punkt ist der erleichterte Marktzugang durch Zollsenkung und Abbau von Importquoten. Der...