corruption, government spending and decentralisation, making policies aimed at enhancing institutional quality capable of …In the last decade, Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have witnessed a rapid economic convergence vis … share the same individual determinants of happiness as people in the West (despite some significant cross-country variation …

institutions, such as that of Russia. However, as the role of non-market factors (such as corruption) in firms' prosperity …Can decentralization of firms be successful in an environment with weak institutions? Decentralization can do a great …, which is particularly important for firms that operate under weak institutions. Hence, the popular belief is that in …

This study consists of three empirical essays that analyse the impact of corruption on foreign direct investment …, institutions and growth linkages and subjective well-being in transition countries. …

Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic … increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical … happiness. We derive a simple test of whether reversals are possible by relabelling the scores of reported happiness and deduce …