must be comprehensive and institutionally specific so that reformers know which institutions to reform and how to do so …

Douglass North (1990) describes institutions as the rules of the game that set limits on human behavior, now a ….” A review of this evidence, and its implications for our understanding of the role of social norms and institutions, is …

This paper examines the role of long standing institutions – identified through geography, disease ecology, colonial … presence of variables that directly and indirectly measure the quality of institutions, is extremely fascinating. It shows that … institutions. Some of the other measures of climate and geography as well as those of colonial legacy are important as long as we …

institutions on economic performance and the channels through which the institutional impact unfolds. The review is limited to work …

on the roles of physical geography, climate, disease ecology, economic and political institutions, geopolitical relations …

The paper aims to investigate the main characteristics of institutions, as well as some of their more conspicuous … what is called the other social factors (or components). The article tries to describe the relationships among institutions … and other social factors, in addition to contrasts and similarities among institutions in different levels, and in …

institutions. The literature on cross-country studies has been criticized because differences in legal systems and other … institutions across countries are difficult to control for. An in-depth case study of a particular country’s experience can provide … natural experiment from joining the World Trade Organization, I find that variations in economic institutions across provinces …