, where due to population mixing and the salience of national institutions ethnic traits play a lesser role. Overall, our …

-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial … different country-level institutions, offers a regression discontinuity framework. After identifying the partitioned ethnicities … we document a positive cross-sectional association between national institutions and regional economic development …

We investigate the role of national institutions on regional development in a novel framework. We exploit the fact that … institutions. Using both a matching-type and a regression discontinuity approach we show that differences in countrywide … correlation between formal national institutions and economic development has to be carefully interpreted. …

We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development … ethnic homelands with different legacies of pre-colonial political institutions. …

This paper uses a large panel of financial flow data from banks to assess how institutions affect international lending …

relatively stable democracy to autocracy and 6 episodes of small improvements in representative institutions. We also classify …, trade openness and proxies of early institutions. …

This paper challenges cross-sectional findings that democratic institutions have a negligible direct effect on economic … growth. We employ a newly constructed data-set of permanent democratic transitions during the so-called Third Wave of … institutions. We study democratization in a before-after event study approach that enables us to control for time-invariant country …

? We argue that if this was the case, financially developed countries should see faster growth in industries with … investment opportunities due to global demand and productivity shifts. Testing this cross-industry cross-country growth …

Do high levels of human capital foster economic growth by facilitating technology adoption? If so, countries with more …'s. High human capital levels should therefore have translated into fast growth in more compared to less human … determinant of growth in human-capital-intensive industries. Using data for a large sample of countries, we find significant …