This dissertation explores the role of efficiency of redistributive institutions (ERI)on redistribution. The first … empirically analyzes the role of efficiency ofredistributive institutions on redistribution in the form of social security and …

set of formal and informal market-regulating and market-stabilising institutions. The following positive institutional …

and thedecline in labor market institutions are three interrelated phenomena. The focus on the interdependence of these … addresses the problem of interaction (and thus competition) among countries with different systems of labor market institutions … institutions in a world with ever growing interdependence among countries (Agell 1999, Freeman 1998), the model presented in this …

This thesis investigates the role of institutions in shaping macroeconomic phenomena. The first two chapters focus on … financial institutions, formalizing interactions between information and competition in frictional credit markets and providing … relationship between political institutions and growth.In Chapter 1, I construct a credit-based model of production to analyze how …

This dissertation examines the role that institutions play in the existence of multiple equilibria in models of … dissertation presents an empirical test for the role that human capital and institutions may play in transitions between equilibria … probabilities. I find that political and economic institutions are similar in their effects on transitions arid that the time …

owners and/or managers of forty-five firms in 2001 and 2002.When firms perceive state institutions as unable to guarantee the …-state enforcement strategies are rooted in preexisting institutions and cultural practices, and develop in response to specific kinds of … contract enforcement and dispute resolution, as well as the significance that state contract enforcement institutions have for …