Frontmatter -- Contents -- Digital Economy in the 21 Century: An Introduction to the Institutional Approach -- Part I: The Scientific Concept of the Digital Economy in the 21st Century -- 1 Digital Economy as a Modern Type of Economic System -- 2 “Digitalization”- Overcoming Institutional...

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one in developing countries. This paper challenges these...

During the last two decades fertility rates have decreased and have become positively correlated with female participation rates across OECD countries. I use a panel of 23 OECD nations to study how different labor market arrangements shaped these trends. High unemployment and unstable contracts,...

Normative theorists of corruption have developed an institutional conception that is distinct from both individualistic. The quid pro quo approaches and other institutional approaches are found in the literature on developing and developed countries. These theorists describe the close link...

The study investigates what causes non-performing loans (NPLs) in developed and developing countries. To identify the relationship between bank-specific, macroeconomic determinants, and institutional environment non-performing loans on country-level panel data of Developing nations for the...

This paper examines the moderating influence of the size of a country’s shadow economy on the effects of national institutions on the likelihood that individuals will enter into technology entrepreneurship. Using multi-level study of 44 countries – 20 developing and 24 developed – and...