This paper investigates whether institutional quality determines the effect of inflation targeting (IT) on the banking risk of Islamic versus conventional banks, using an unbalanced panel data over the period 2007-2016. However, the use of the generalized method of moments (GMM) and two measures...

The study analyzes the effect of inflation volatility on growth in the presence of different degrees of institutional development. A nonlinear growth regression specification using a system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) procedure on a sample of 37 countries over the period 1989–2006 is...

Unprecedented challenges to agriculture — including population growth, climate change, energy scarcity, natural resources degradation and market globalization — underscore the need to rethink policies and institutions for crop production intensification. Models used for intensification in...

A vibrant body of research analyzes the impact of domestic political institutions on choice of exchange-rate regime. While most of this work focuses on regime type, I examine the relationship between institutional quality and monetary policy. I empirically assess two strands of theoretical work...

This paper is concentrated on the comparative macroeconomic analysis of the differences stemming from the extent to which the institutional framework of the currency board arrangement is implemented in the legal and regulatory systems in the different countries. The main objective of taking into...