religion, language, and formal institutions are long shared. One interpretation of these disparities is that successful regions … cooperation or to institutions, formal or informal, that may vary across Italy, as the experimental methodology silences their …. Using a millennium-long dataset, we explore whether the quality of past political institutions and the frequency of wars …

basic idea is that institutions, the cobweb of relations among them and their interaction with the economic structure define …

a well-functioning education system and labour market institutions that do not introduce distortions into the labour …

fiscal transparency. It is shown that there is in fact a causal relationship between institutions and transparency. The …

political pressure to reduce corruption if financial institutions are missing. Our model is based on the fact that corrupt … the rents from corruption. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more …-functioning financial institutions, in turn, can increase the political support for anti-corruption measures. …

substitute some functions of missing institutions, for example, enforcing contracts. We investigate this by setting up a model …