spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …

-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …

induce commoners to identify with the nation. The more commoners identify with the nation, the less is conflict between …

investigate this idea in a simple model of regime change and show that the regions where the prevailing institutions are less …

investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country …

(Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the cultural values that complement the prevailing institutions. As a result … institutional environment. In this paper, we address these issues by modeling the joint evolution of institutions and culture. In …

' persistent characteristics, such as their institutions. Among our findings are that macroeconomic policies affect development … institutional quality. -- human development ; institutions ; dynamic panel modelling …