This paper surveys recent evidence suggesting that market‐oriented institutions and policies
are strongly related to economic growth, focusing on studies using the economic freedom …

Renewable energy is a variable influencing CO 2 emission. Previous studies investigated its
effects on CO 2 emission in the European Union (EU) countries using classical …

Prior research has concluded that socio-economic development does not significantly affect
terrorism. We take an alternative view. First, we note that a country's socio-economic …

Over the last two decades, emerging markets have received much attention due to their
substantial development. This study investigates the quality of financial institutions, and the …

Despite the fact that large welfare states are vulnerable to free‐riding, the idea that universal
welfare states lead to higher trust levels in the population has received some attention and …

Does economic freedom cause economic growth or does causality run in the reverse
direction? And do all the constituent parts of economic freedom exert a causal impact on …

This study investigates the role of institutions in sha** international differences in
economic complexity—a novel measure of productive capabilities. More specifically …

The previous literature is filled with mixed findings with regard to human capital's impact on
entrepreneurial outcomes. Using data from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, we re-explore …

This paper examines the relationship between the quality of different dimensions of
institutional infrastructure and economic growth in a panel of 39 member countries of the …

Using a panel of up to 116 countries from 1970 to 2010 we estimate the effects of foreign aid
flows on a variety of measures of institutional quality. We find that aid flows are associated …