Culture, Institutions, and Economic Performance
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§ Financial support from the KLAUS TSCHIRA FOUNDATION is gratefully acknowledged. Furthermore, we would like to thank participants at the 13th Annual Conference of The International Society for New Institutional Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, 2009, the participants of the Mika Widgrèn Memorial Workshop on Rules, Games and Democracy in Turku, September 7-9, 2009, as well ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Montenegrin Journal of Economics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1800-5845,1800-6698
DOI: 10.14254/1800-5845/2017.13-2.3