This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardized questionnaire. Our data …-setting institutions. …

literature also provides evidence of the long lived nature of institutions and the link between institutions and decision making …

developing countries where an overall increase in the quality of institutions is recorded. The mechanism of information diffusion … institutions. On the other hand, if good institutions and good information about institutions do not come together, there is scope …

Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether … commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms …. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated conjectures. The first concerns whether the political system …

. Institutions and other structural factors are also found to be significant and important determinants of the rate of part …

countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone Habsburg border have been sharing common formal institutions for a century …

We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined … institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy of the Great Recession, and those countries whose unemployment grew … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …