crucial for the success of a monetary reform. -- Monetary Reforms ; Credibility ; Commitment ; Institutions … macroeconomic model of commitment and credibility. As the dependent variable, we calculate a post-reform inflation rate. The … exogenous variables are the degree of legal commitment and the constraining influence of institutions. The paper allows for the …

This paper develops the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental … cause of differences in economic development. We first document the empirical importance of institutions by focusing on two … “quasi-natural experiments” in history, the division of Korea into two parts with very different economic institutions and …