We use the Economic Freedom Index (Gwartney, Lawson and Norton 2008) to characterise the institutions of ancient Athens …

Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …

This research paper discusses the role of institutions in the rapid growth and successful international integration of … institutions whose existence was crucial, the paper looks both at the political institutions that managed conflicts and promoted … cooperation between private and public actors and the economic institutions that, on the one hand, compensated the groups that …

country. This paper provides the first evidence that the positive effect of importing good institutions cancels out when the … receiving territories are characterized by cultural traits in conflict with those embedded in the imported institutions. We … French institutions in Protestant areas. Then, using hand-collected data on pre-Napoleonic reigns we show that kingdoms with …

Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …

successful in substituting its fiscal and legal institutions for those of the medieval seigneurial regime within an area of the … themselves with national, as opposed to local, institutions. We also show that regions inside the CGF that affiliated with …

during this period. Further historical evidence supports our hypothesis that higher taxes led to better legal institutions. …

A fundamental question in economic development is how societies first acquire a successful set of institutions. To … productive institutions, ideas, and habits. This paper argues that the English experience of institutional development cannot be …

sound informal institutions that would have supported material progress among the subject Filipinos. As a result, Rizal … viewed the reform of formal institutions as a necessary but insufficient condition for promoting the country’s economic …