We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 … unified Italian State. Our results suggest that past historical institutions play a significant role on the current public … confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and economic development. It discusses the various … institutions and policies can affect trust and promote pro-social behaviors. …

This paper examines the role that institutions have played in the performance of African economies over the past …

contributes to revisiting questions of economic performance, social capital and institutions with a clearly better and updated … overarching definitions of social capital, along with institutions, inequality, and education are consistently significant …

a concerted strategy between the State and companies, their associations and other institutions, produce significant …

The quality of contracting institutions has been thought to be of second-order importance next to the impact that good … property rights institutions can have on long-run growth. Using a large range of proxies for each type of institution, we find … a robust negative link between the quality of contracting institutions and long-run growth when we condition on property …

Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty … eradication effect of institutions is through income-average as opposed to income-inequality. We discuss the confirmed findings in …

Over the last couple of decades, it has become a commonplace to claim that institutions matter" for economic … development. Yet, institutions are not exogenous but the result of hu-man action. It is argued here that the values and norms held … by substantial parts of society’s members are an important determinant of its institutions. It is further argued that …