coincided with the greatest waves of European migration (1880, 1910) in order to uncover the settlement patterns of migrants of … determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development … difference for long-term economic development whatsoever. This holds for the first and second wave of migration. Hence being …

experiment that investigates the impact of political institutions within groups on the development of conflict between groups. We … situations in which institutions are adopted exogenously or endogenously. Our findings thus suggest that giving people the … giving participants the possibility to choose which institution to adopt, we find that democracy is the by far most popular …

probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead more corruption as more voters are part of the … corrupt system. Well-functioning financial institutions, in turn, can increase the political support for anti-corruption …In transition and developing countries, we observe rather high levels of corruption even they have democratic political …

(in terms of market access to Mediterranean and European countries) and institutions (presence of Mafia-type crime …, corruption of public officers, inefficiency of the labour judicial system). Provinces with better access to neighbouring … subjects, fewer corruption episodes and lower presence of organized crime should also be associated with higher flows of FDIs …

In this study we investigate how both local environment and individual characteristics explain incidence of corruption …. More specifically, we explore how city size, and residing in a capital city influence the two aspects of corruption … corruption. Finally, we also investigate how access to elements of information and communication technology, individually and …

increases current social capital and trust and reduces corruption in several public services. Past formal institutions can leave … on both sides of the long-gone border of the Habsburg Empire have been sharing common formal institutions for 90 years …

institutions have these funds contributed positively to regional development. Our analysis attempts to shed light on how investment … subsidies may create industrialization, and more importantly, how poor quality institutions may prevent this strategy from …

The number of firm bankruptcies is surprisingly low in economies with poor institutions. We study a model of bank …. We show that institutions must improve significantly in order to yield a stable equilibrium in which the optimal number … of firms is liquidated. There is also a range where improving institutions may decrease the number of bad firms …