Recently the impact of institutional factors on macro variables has been gaining momentum. Researchers have investigated the impact of corruption, law and order, and bureaucracy on economic growth, inflation, investment, productivity, and the real exchange rate. In this article, we investigate...

The literature on income inequality includes many studies that have tried to identify factors such as level of economic development, rate of economic growth, population growth, resource endowment, price instability, and openness as main determinant of income inequality. In this paper, we show...

Researchers who have been concerned with the economic implications of military spending have mostly concentrated on its impact on economic growth, corruption, real exchange rate and inflation. In this paper we investigate the impact of military spending on black market premium, an area that has...