disease burden, etc. It demonstrates that relative influence of institutions varies across stages of development. …The paper aims to examine the role of institutions relative to economic policy and geography in explaining the … differential level of development across countries over time. To that end, it attempts to construct a Development Quality Index …

impact of institutions on development. The preliminary cross-country findings show that (i) institutional quality positively …The paper uses nonparametric methodology to examine the role of institutions in understanding differential levels of … development across countries. This technique estimates first order derivatives for every country allowing a deeper look into the …

analyzing the effect of oil production on different indicators of the development level of municipalities: school enrollment … role that local institutions play in this context. Chapter 2 analyzes how greenhouse gas emissions of companies in OECD and …

of good institutions (especially a high quality of regulation) can in part prevent this effect, which can be cautiously … institutions, these losses may be prevented or mitigated. …

institutions does not hold. SSA countries appear to face very specific development problems. Given their geographic and economic … countries, as suggested by recent studies on the supremacy of institutions. Our empirical results show that the supremacy of … empirical evidence that appears to imply the supremacy of institutions. …

. Finally, and more optimistically, when we consider our results in the context of institutions and growth, we conclude that … development. …