institutions, natural resource rents cease to have a negative impact on long-term growth. Institutions in resource-based economies … foster economic growth when voice and accountability are in place; broad-based rule of law is enforced with secure property …

institutions and governance on environmental policy, environmental outcomes, and investments. The paper describes how the … relationship between institutions and various response variables related to environmental performance and environmental policy have …

Increasing the realism with respect to the representation of actors, decision-making, and institutions is critical to … better understand the transition towards a low-carbon sustainable society since actors, decision-making, and institutions are …

(Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the cultural values that complement the prevailing institutions. As a result … institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …

. Economic institutions encouraging economic growth emerge when political institutions allocate power to groups with interests in …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 …

to a causal effect of marriage patterns on the proper functioning of formal institutions and democracy. The study further … instrumental variables, reveals highly significant point estimates of the percentage of cousin marriage on an index of democracy …

institutions and governance on environmental policy, environmental outcomes, and investments. The paper describes how the … relationship between institutions and various response variables related to environmental performance and environmental policy have …

institutions as the rules of the game and then focuses on the two basic mechanisms of emergence and evolution of social … institutions, i.e. as a product of collective action or as a spontaneous outcome of human interaction. It also shows how the the … institutional framework consisting of informal and formal institutions gives rise to path dependence, leading societies to play a …

This article explores the heterogeneous effects of liberal institutions on economic performance depending on the … existence of coherent cultural traits. The matching between cultural traits and institutions is what we refer to as cultural … institutions and triggered a significant rearrangement in the distribution of economic development across regions, favoring those …