Book Abstracts -- Contents -- 1: The Long Stagnation -- Western Australian Economic Growth and the Role of Co-operation -- The Imperial Inheritance and Pragmatic Co-operation -- The Organisation of This Book -- Bibliography -- Theses -- Secondary Sources -- 2: Visions of English Co-operation in...

Introduction / Robyn Pilcher -- Differential reporting : what does it really mean for the public sector? / Robyn Pilcher & David Gilchrist -- Depreciation in local government : still the problems continue / Robyn Pilcher -- The consequences of the current public sector reporting framework for...

Purpose: Because of the renewed interest in public purchasing and the strategic use of public funds under the requirements of sustainable development, the question arose once again as to how to curb the fall of institutional quality once criteria other than price are inserted into the...

Este artículo investiga qué tipo de cambios institucionales tienen un mayor impacto en el crecimiento económico de largo plazo: las reformas de carácter tecnocrático orientadas a la economía o la democratización. Con este objetivo, para el caso de España, examinamos el Plan de...

Este documento estima el efecto de la calidad de las instituciones en el patrón de especialización productiva observado en España en el período 1999-2014 a nivel local. La investigación parte de la observación de que la actividad económica en España muestra un fuerte patrón de...

En este documento se estudia por primera vez el impacto de la complejidad regulatoria a escala sectorial en España en diversas medidas de eficiencia económica. El análisis se fundamenta en una innovadora base de datos que ha clasificado 206.777 normas españolas, tanto por sector de actividad...

I examine the contribution of institutional breakdowns to long-run development, drawing on Argentina's unique departure from a rich country on the eve of World War I to an underdeveloped one today. The empirical strategy is based on building a counterfactual scenario to examine the path of...

We examine the impact of the trans fat ban on a variety of public health outcomes. To this end, we consider a de facto trans fat ban that was introduced by Denmark in 2001. Using the synthetic control method, parallel trends between Denmark and countries in a control group in the years prior to...