Domestic institutions can have profound effects on international trade. This chapter reviews the theoretical and … empirical underpinnings of this insight. Particular attention is paid to contracting institutions and to comparative advantage … advantage to domestic institutions. …

This paper introduces and describes a new city-level data set on political institutions in pre-modern Europe. To be … institutions between 800 AD and 1800 AD in 104 cities in central Europe (Alsace-Lorrain, Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands … burgher representation) represent the universe of existing political institutions in cities in this era. This new data set is …

empower different elites and emphasize the interaction between local and nationwide institutions. We show that rising economic …

experience with the evolution of enforcement institutions in Asia over the same period …

experience with the evolution of enforcement institutions in Asia over the same period …

The paper tries to improve our understanding on the role of institutions in development by critically examining the … current orthodox discourse on institutions and highlighting some of its key problems. After discussing some definitional …

officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability …

This paper studies whether institutions matter for economic performance. For this aim, we first construct a simple … framework illustrating how to examine the interaction between institutions and economic performance from a different point of … interaction between institutions and economic performance in Turkey. Co-integration analysis finds a long-run relationship between …