The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of biocapacity and institutional quality on inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using system-GMM on a sample of 39 countries, it is found that institutional quality increases inclusive human development and all its components....

This study empirically examines the effect of sustainable urbanization on vulnerability to climate change over a sample of 52 African countries from 1996 to 2019. We use the two-stage system generalized method of moments (GMM) empirical strategy and mediation analysis to assess direct and...

In this paper, we examine the impact of institutional quality on the returns on key drivers of economic growth in 230 European Union (EU) NUTS-2 regions from 2009 to 2017. To estimate region-specific elasticities, we employ a latent class modelling approach, considering the quality of government...

The credibility thesis premises that an institution's endogenous credibility and function, rather than its form, ensures its persistence. Informal rental housing (IRH), an informal housing institution in China, was suggested to serve as a dwelling for low-income residents in previous research on...

Dieses Dialogpapier adressiert die Rolle und Aufgaben von Hochschulen und öffentlich geförderten Forschungseinrichtungen im gesellschaftlichen Wissenstransfer. Das Papier richtet sich an Entscheidungsträger*innen und Fachleute in Politik und Verwaltung sowie in Hochschulen und in weiteren...

This paper investigates the link between corporate investments, eco-nomic policy uncertainty and the quality of institutional environments. The corporate investments of private firms in 10 European countries from 2009 to 2018 were examined and a negative effect of economic policy uncertainty on...

Purpose - This study aims to identify informal institutions for bottom-of-the-pyramid (BoP) business models in the agricultural sector through the case study of banana growers' cooperatives. Design/methodology/approach - A case study of six banana cooperatives from Colombia was conducted. The...

This paper examines the relationship between trust in institutions and tax morale, focusing on governance quality. It hypothesizes that the interaction effect between trust in institutions and governance quality significantly influences tax morale. The study also explores whether this effect is...

Dieses Dialogpapier adressiert die Rolle und Aufgaben von Hochschulen und öffentlich geförderten Forschungseinrichtungen im gesellschaftlichen Wissenstransfer. Das Papier richtet sich an Entscheidungsträger*innen und Fachleute in Politik und Verwaltung sowie in Hochschulen und in weiteren...

This paper investigates the importance of accounting for the profile of inequality in the analysis of institutional trust. Drawing on individual data from 82 countries around the world over the 1981-2021 period, it sheds light on the potential limitations of exploring the impact of the income...

Using a sample of 193 countries from 2010 to 2019, this study investigates the impact of institutional quality index (IQI) and information and communication technology (ICT) on inclusive growth. The study engaged the panel spatial correlation consistent (PSCC-FE), instrumental...

This paper examines the role played by pro-market policies, institutions, natural resources, and infrastructure on the total factor productivity (TFP) of twenty Latin American and Caribbean countries over the period 2000-2018. In estimating the TFP, we use the Färe-Primont index based on DEA....

This paper offers an analytical narrative based on an assurance game with two separate populations in an evolutionary setting. In our model, Donors and Recipients are two populations; let us call them Europe and Ukraine. The donor population has two types. A proportion of this population wants...

Managers' characteristics have been identified to have an influence on how they perceive innovation. This study examines the role of top managers' experience and how it influences their propensity to innovate. It employs a logit model to analyze data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys,...

Several previous studies have explored the relationship between trust and socio-economic conditions but do not attempt to examine channels through which the relation operates. In this paper, we examine how political fractionalization mitigates the positive relationship between trust institutions...

Medium-term budgetary frameworks are institutional arrangements at national level intended to improve official forecasts in EU member states. The influence of those frameworks on official forecasts of output growth and the budget balance ratio in 24 EU member states over the years 2008 to 2019...

In this paper we study how differences in the quality of countries’ institutions affect the impact of natural hazards in these countries. To do so, we first build a new data set that allows us to adequately control for countries’ development and geological characteristics and,...

This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on, while Europe remained politically fragmented for...