contribute to Chinese urbanization. Finally, we show that better institutions in Concessions facilitated the emergence of modern …

This paper studies the persistent impact of good institutions on economic development in China. By exploiting a British … customs institutions are also better developed today. Moreover, I show that the institutional switch was exogenous to the pre …-colonial development, and I provide different estimation models to reveal a robust and causal relationship between good institutions and …

This paper studies the persistent impact of good institutions on economic development in China. By exploiting a British … customs institutions are also better developed today. Moreover, I show that the institutional switch was exogenous to the pre …-colonial development, and I provide different estimation models to reveal a robust and causal relationship between good institutions and …

I reconsider the primacy of institutions over geography as an explanatory factor of cross-country differences in … specifications and samples. Unbiased estimates of the relative performance effects of institutions and malaria prevalence are … difficult to obtain due to a lack of independent instrumental variables. Conditional on a restricted effect of institutions, my …

Institutions are important for proper economic performance, but are replaceable by trust or other social norms. We show … that when proper institutions and trust are missing, integrity of the individuals can replace them. We construct a model of … a transactions-based economy with contracts preceding the transactions, and show that any one of (1) institutions, (2 …

entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …

This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat …