The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new … disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and … alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small positive net effect of total aid on political institutions. Distinguishing …

widely examined. However, the interplay between the involved firms in a collusive agreement, i.e., the governance dimension … paper empirically reveals that polycentric structures within the cartel governance may contribute to longer duration and … aspects: The entangled governance structures of collusive undertakings as well as the relevance of polycentricity in the firm …

legitimacy and political leadership; and governance and state capacity. Overall, the selected indicators point to similar trends …