The test aims at two objectives. First, it presents a new technique of time series analysis that allows to date historical processes: the recurrence plot. This technique was conceived originally to detect non- linearities and eventually chaotic dynamics in experimental signals in Physics, but it...

Institutions are in essence restrictions to the individual behavior created by the own individuals to allow social interactions. The most promising theoretical and empiric progresses in the study of that theme have been reached in the last years by the New Institutional Economy (NIE), but they...