We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from recourse to formal institutions of conflict …

We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …

This paper studies the legacies of wartime institutions, measured as rebelocracy, on the ability of households to cope …

-existing institutions. These results are consistent with a theoretical model in which armed groups capture local organizations for strategic …

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new … disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and … alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small positive net effect of total aid on political institutions. Distinguishing …

The role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal's Asian Drama, with later … agree about the institutions that matter nor do they explain why similar institutions delivered such different results … across countries. Cultural norms and informal institutions clearly matter but the appropriate norms did not already exist in …

productive activities. We show that in this model two stable equilibria can emerge. As Baumol (1990) hypothesized, institutions … the importance of high quality institutions in developing countries and sheds light on the situation in conflict and post …-conflict countries, where both informal and formal institutions arguably have broken down. Under such circumstances, our analysis shows …

relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large …