institutions trump all other potential determinants of development. For given effects of institutional quality, our empirical … from our estimates that implementing good institutions appears to be necessary but not sufficient to generate a persistent …

contribute to Chinese urbanization. Finally, we show that better institutions in Concessions facilitated the emergence of modern …

This paper studies the persistent impact of good institutions on economic development in China. By exploiting a British … customs institutions are also better developed today. Moreover, I show that the institutional switch was exogenous to the pre …-colonial development, and I provide different estimation models to reveal a robust and causal relationship between good institutions and …

This paper studies the persistent impact of good institutions on economic development in China. By exploiting a British … customs institutions are also better developed today. Moreover, I show that the institutional switch was exogenous to the pre …-colonial development, and I provide different estimation models to reveal a robust and causal relationship between good institutions and …

I reconsider the primacy of institutions over geography as an explanatory factor of cross-country differences in … specifications and samples. Unbiased estimates of the relative performance effects of institutions and malaria prevalence are … difficult to obtain due to a lack of independent instrumental variables. Conditional on a restricted effect of institutions, my …

sociopolitical institutions because they (a) involve a strong degree of increasing returns to scale and the natural monopoly powers …