-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has …Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the … hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course …

of political institutions across regions and societies. The study establishes that, while human diversity has amplified … autocratic institutions. A larger degree of human diversity within societies diminished cohesiveness and therefore stimulated the … institutions towards extractive, autocratic ones. Developing a novel geo-referenced dataset of genetic diversity and ethnographic …

all. Our empirical evidence does, however, support not only the "primacy of institutions" view, but also the important …

differences in economic development among the countries of the world. According to the institutions-augmented Solow model, the … economic development. To answer this question, a new concept of the institutions-augmented Solow model is constructed. The … institutions-augmented Solow model fits the empirical data very well. It turns out that differences in physical capital, human …

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

This paper presents an integrated overview of the literature linking institutions, financial development and economic … impact of institutions on growth through financial development. …