Morocco charted its own distinctive path of power sector reform. It selectively introduced private sector participation … disparate actions of political parties and sector institutions. Ambitious targets for electricity access, liberalization, and … operational efficiency has been broadly adequate, performance has fluctuated over time. Moreover, the sector's achievements …

experimental variation in program design is unavailable, we exploit the 2011 reform of the current German SUS program for the … estimate the impact of the reform on the program’s effectiveness using samples of participants and non-participants from before … and after the reform. To control for time-constant unobserved heterogeneity as well as differential selection patterns …

been low investment, held back by lack of strong and independent institutions. This paper aims to assess the major areas of … economic institutions and market development. Our analysis identifies the legal system as the area where the institutional … a methodology that accounts for positive spillovers between the structural reform areas, we estimate that even under the …

ventures. That is followed by three papers that focus on the institutions that (fail to) channel financial resources to such … ventures and two papers that analyze the relevance of labor market institutions. The special issue concludes with two papers … investigating how the interplay of institutions and productive entrepreneurship results in economic growth. …

reforms has usually been to increase economic efficiency, some critics have instead inferred ulterior motives and a desire to … European countries in the period 1993-2015. The dependent variable is the average satisfaction with democracy, while the reform …