overcome these challenges and play a more active role in economic development through policy measures such as industrial policy …

of institutions for economic development as being based on flawed measures of institutions, or not even on institutions …The statement institutions matter has become commonplace. A precondition for it to be supported by empirical evidence …, is, however, that institutions are measurable. Glaeser et al. (2004) attacks many studies claiming to prove the relevance …

Institutional settings and the resulting incentive structures are crucial for economic development. The type of … institutions with better incentive structures for entrepreneurs are perceived as being of higher quality by this group. We find … empirical evidence that high institutional quality increases the willingness of the self-employed to accept these institutions …

, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and … institutions are accounted for. …

institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history …

education. While the contribution of both human capital and institutions to growth are often acknowledged, the channels by which … institutions affect human capital and, in turn, growth, has been relatively underexplored. Our empirical approach adopts a two …

It is well established in the long-term development literature that deeply rooted institutions are the fundamental … development. The central hypothesis is that institutions are linked to higher degrees of economic complexity via strengthening … to which the quality of institutions helps shape international differences in economic complexity – a novel measure of …

regulations, affect HGF development across European regions. Using data from Eurostat, OECD, WEF, and Gothenburg University, we … blocks to develop tailored policy measures that may influence the development of HGFs in a region. …