What mechanisms account for the long-run differences in economic development across historical settings? Current scholarship has renewed the argument that institutions are essential for promoting market transactions, industrialization, trade and economic growth. In particular, recent work in...

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Teil 1: Grundlagen des Tourismus-Managements und der Fremdenverkehrsplanung -- I. Grundlagen und Rahmenbedingungen des Tourismus-Managements und der Fremdenverkehrsplanung -- 1. Das System Tourismus im Überblick -- 2. Tourismus-Management und...

Emergent economies suffer from underdeveloped market infrastructures and insufficient public institutions to enforce contract commitments and property rights. Informal reputation-based arrangements may substitute for government enforcement but they require close-knit networks that enable...

There has been a longstanding debate about the link between political representation and health. In this article, I provide novel evidence that electoral reforms that shifted from a majoritarian to a proportional system of voter representation generated substantive health benefits for the...

We study the political determinants of policy experimentation during the US welfare reform. Among other changes, this reform shifted the autonomy to implement welfare policies from the federal government to the individual states. In line the predictions from a political agency model, we find...