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 …

; comparative development …

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. …

entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … illustrating a U-shaped or L-shaped relationship to more complex measures, which are positively related to economic development …. Implications for public policy suggest that institutions need to be strengthened before entrepreneurial resource can be deployed to …

innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … robust even after controlling for the effect of institutions and other factors. We also provide evidence of a two-way causal … effect between culture and institutions. …