Despite a large consensus among economists on the strong interdependence and synergy between pro-development institutions, how should one understand why Imperial China, with weaker rule of law and property rights, gave the commoners more opportunities to access elite status than Premodern...

This paper formalizes the principle that persecution power of government may generate violent contests over it. We show that this principle yields a large set of theoretical insights on different separation-of-powers institutions that can help to preempt such contests under different...

The main objective of this paper is to empirically test the variables of the theory of transaction costs and resource based view that influence on the decisionof internationalization of production processes. A logistic regression with data from companies in 15 European countries was estimated,...

Few studies in Europe have analysed the urban growth phenomenon in terms of spatial expansion of built up areas, rather than from the population changes. This paper presents the CHANGE module of Brussels of the MURBANDY Project, which aims to analyse and understand the urban expansion of several...