This article provides a statistical analysis of core contentions of the 'varieties of
capitalism'perspective on comparative capitalism. The authors construct indices to assess …

Since the early 1990s, Europe's economies have been facing several new challenges: the
1992 single market programme, the collapse of the Berlin wall and eastward enlargement …

Why does corporate governance--front page news with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom,
and Parmalat--vary so dramatically around the world? This book explains how politics …

The concept of institutional complementarity is central to the recent debate on the internal
logics of production regimes, redirecting our attention from the effects of single institutions to …

Abstract Peter Hall and David Soskice suggest that institutional coherence is conducive to
successful macroeconomic outcomes. Countries with corporate governance arrangements …

The purpose of this paper is to review the main literature that has analyzed the channels
through which institutions influence economic change, hence development. The interest for …

The purpose of this article is to empirically assess the relationship existing between local
financial development and the growth of firms, with a special focus on cooperatives. Using …

Digitalization and artificial intelligence increasingly affect the world of work. Rising risk of
massive job losses have sparked technological fears. Limited income and productivity gains …

This article presents a simple formal model of institutional complementarity (IC) applied to
industrial relations, and develops two important aspects of IC. We first develop a formal …

This study is the first in a decade to provide an overview of banking in Brazil. It is argued that
the big three federal banks have long provided essential policy alternatives and, since the …