The view that European institutions do not operate with maximum efficiency, that they are not yet able to cope with all … emerged in recent years. In this paper we try to clarify the concept of institutional efficiency, and try to follow from a … chronological perspective the main events that led to the more or less efficient European institutions. …

This paper examines the effect of trade integration and comparative advantage on one of a country’s institutions, which … in turn inuences its economic efficiency. The environment we explore is one in which a country’s lower classes may revolt … economic efficiency. Trade integration alters the relative value of the elite’s wealth. This alters the lower classes …

The view that European institutions do not operate with maximum efficiency, that they are not yet able to cope with all … emerged in recent years. In this paper we try to clarify the concept of institutional efficiency, and try to follow from a … chronological perspective the main events that led to the more or less efficient European institutions. …

EThe view that European institutions do not operate with maximum efficiency, that they are not yet able to cope with … not emerged in recent years. In this paper we try to clarify the concept of institutional efficiency, and try to follow … from a chronological perspective the main events that led to the more or less efficient European institutions. …

In this paper we study how differences in the quality of countries' institutions affect the impact of natural hazards in … output distance frontier model to assess two important aspects of the relation-ship between institutions and hazard impacts … else equal, suffer relative to the best performing countries. We can refer to this as the countries' (in)efficiency at …

contributions. One is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between political institutions and economic efficiency …

with school efficiency. Our results show that the specified link between institutional arrangements and student achievement …

theory suggest that they work against efficiency when membership grows too diffuse. To address this issue, this study uses a …