This study examines the role of institutional environment quality (IEQ) in the relationship between national culture (NC) and tax evasion (TE). Prior research examined the direct impact of culture on tax evasion but did not examine potential mechanisms that may influence this relationship. Using...

Medium-term budgetary frameworks are institutional arrangements at national level intended to improve official forecasts in EU member states. The influence of those frameworks on official forecasts of output growth and the budget balance ratio in 24 EU member states over the years 2008 to 2019...

Institutional quality is found to be a major determinant in FDI literature in general. It suggests that political risk (lack of/poor institutional quality) not only deters FDI inflows to host countries but also can lead FDI to countries with higher risks and to ‘pollution heaven’ which might...

Major output collapses are costly and frequent in the developing world. Using cross-country data, we classify five-year periods using a two-dimensional state space based on growth regimes and political institutions. We then model the joint evolution of output growth and political institutions as...

Unlike many disaster-prone countries in Southeast Asia, such as Indonesia and the Philippines, there is a lack of study on the history of institutions, governance and policy on Myanmar’s experience dealing with disasters. A substantial increase in the literature on Myanmar disaster management...

Several previous studies have explored the relationship between trust and socio-economic conditions but do not attempt to examine channels through which the relation operates. In this paper, we examine how political fractionalization mitigates the positive relationship between trust institutions...