This paper proposes a formal framework to analyze the process of institutional evolution in relation with economic progress. Institutions have both formal (F) and informal (N) aspects that may exhibit varying processes of change. N is hypothesized to evolve with the level of capital stock, as in...

This study provides a general equilibrium model to explore the welfare implications of bank regulation and supervision (RS). The model supports the basic expectations regarding the positive effects of RS on the growth rate, output, credit, investment, wages and profits; and its negative effects...

Modeling the evolution of formal institutions in relation to the evolution of economic and informal institutionaldevelopment. Discrete time optimization; simulation. The punctuations and the evolution formal institutional quality depends on the extent of economic heterogenety.