agricultural development literature has begun exploring the appropriate structure of third-party facilitated institutions and … enforcement mechanisms to support linking small farmers to markets. Based upon a series of long-term qualitative and quantitative … analyses of the instrumental case of USDA Marketing Assistance Project in Armenia, we use a grounded theory approach to develop …

institutions, and tests whether such labor rigidities are conducive to long-run growth. We find that non-enforceable labor …

We study how the efficient choice of contract enforcement interacts with the efficient allocation of capital in a … simple production economy. Contract enforcement makes trade possible but requires an aggregate investment of capital that is … invest more resources in enforcement. Furthermore, implementing the optimal allocation requires a specific distribution of …

opportunities. This implies that trustworthiness may be evolutionary stable in the long-term. Although stricter enforcement (that …

provides stronger enforcement of contracts facilitates the development of financial markets, which, in turn, enables firms to …