the historical determinants of institutions with the sizeable direct impact of geographic endowments on development. …

economic development, and find that democracies grow faster than autocracies. Furthermore, we illustrate how the estimation …

successful revolution at a stochastic cost. I incorporate this mechanism in a three-country, two-good trade model where countries … revolution is expected to generate trade frictions between the mother country and the rebel colony. Thus, the attractiveness of … revolution and the sustainability of empire come to depend on the capacity of the rebel colony to access international markets …

We estimate the effect of political regime transitions on growth with semi-parametric methods, combining difference in … parametric estimates may have seriously underestimated the growth effects of democracy. In particular, we find an average … negative effect on growth of leaving democracy on the order of −2 percentage points implying effects on income per capita as …

This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as … revolution in a given country by revolutionary events happening in neighboring countries. We investigate the relationship between … this new measure of the threat of revolution and measures of suffrage reform in two samples of European countries covering …

. We challenge this view by arguing that a number of judicial procedures foster economic growth by increasing the … economic growth of 15 judicial procedures. Employing a standard growth model, we find in a cross-section of 67 countries that … timeliness, written—as opposed to oral—procedures, and the right to counsel have a positive effect on growth, whereas the number …

the historical determinants of institutions with the sizeable direct impact of geographic endowments on development …

necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production … function, targeting transfers to women may be beneficial or harmful to growth. In particular, such transfers are more likely to …

for an extensive set of geographical and historical factors of development and minority settlement patterns. Matching type … provide evidence on the channels of persistence. Armenian and Greek contribution to long-run development is largely mediated … development appears less important …