institutional quality matters. The quality of institutions in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries … influences bilateral trade. Political stability is an essential component of the quality of the institutions that determine trade …

This report consists of a comprehensive overview of labour market institutions in the small Pacific island countries in … countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus on the main pillars of labour market institutions, as employment …

historical path dependencies, colonialism, trade policy and domestic institutions on the EU and African side. While trade is … often plagued by a long history of extractive institutions, both politically and economically, which lead to a vicious cycle …

institutions. We place our emphasis on the European Union (EU), which is both economically and financially large and has several … and liquidity losses. These principles include prompt legal closure of institutions before they become economically … insolvent, prompt identification of claims and assignment of losses, prompt reopening of failed institutions, and prompt …

attitudes (trust in domestic and international institutions, populism and immigration); and iii) social aspects … is a sensible increase in trust in domestic institutions. We also document that the pandemic had heterogeneous and …