There is a shortage of evidences and literatures regarding institutional environment differences across the states of India. Therefore, the paper attempts to provide some important sub-national environment differences across the Indian states in the context of entrepreneurship. It focuses on the...

This paper examines whether the institutional quality of immigrants' origin countries matters when testing the relationship between immigration and the US states' economic freedom scores. Our results show that, in the short run, the relationship between economic freedom and immigrants from...

This paper argues that the effect of corruption on competition is dependent on the institutional environment. When institutions are relatively efficient, observed corruption is likely to be associated with relatively less competition. Conversely, in areas with low quality institutions (e.g.,...

Wenn das Finanzausgleichsgesetz zum Ende des Jahres 2019 außer Kraft tritt, ergibt sich eine historische Chance, die Reibungsverluste im gegenwärtigen Ausgleichssystem durch eine Neuordnung der Bund-Länder-Finanzbeziehungen zu verringern. Der Autor analysiert, in welchem institutionellen...