institutions trump all other potential determinants of development. For given effects of institutional quality, our empirical … from our estimates that implementing good institutions appears to be necessary but not sufficient to generate a persistent …

I reconsider the primacy of institutions over geography as an explanatory factor of cross-country differences in … specifications and samples. Unbiased estimates of the relative performance effects of institutions and malaria prevalence are … difficult to obtain due to a lack of independent instrumental variables. Conditional on a restricted effect of institutions, my …

This research explores the origins of the variation in the prevalence and nature of political institutions across globe … of political institutions across regions and societies. The study establishes that, while human diversity has amplified … the beneficial e.ects of institutions, mitigating the adverse e.ects of non-cohesiveness, its simultaneous contribution to …

-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …

institutions trump all other potential determinants of development. For given effects of institutional quality, our empirical … from our estimates that implementing good institutions appears to be necessary but not sufficient to generate a persistent …

by using a broader set of definitions for institutions, geography and economic variables. We use a multi-faceted database … to measure institutions in an attempt to go beyond the single-dimension measures that are often employed. We find that … institutions trump other factors (geography and trade) when we use GDP per capita as an independent variable. When we expand the …

key driving force behind economic development. The other is concerned with the role of institutions in shaping economic … activity, and with how institutions change in the process of economic development. The argument developed in the paper is that … technologies and institutions co-evolve. …

underscore two key challenges for the region. One of them relates to weak institutions and state capacity; the other is the …