Institutional Quality and Government Efficiency

Effects of Government Quality and Institutional Choice on the Efficiency of Airports in the United States

The Rotting Fish: Institutional Trust, the Quality of Government and Corruption Tolerance

The Institutional Spheres Of e-Government Usage

A large number of studies have been conducted in an attempt to investigate and understand the usage determinants of e-government applications. However, there seems to be lack of research that look into the factors of environment, termed as the institutional spheres, as most focus on technological, individual and organizational perspectives. Therefore, using institutional theory as a lens, a fra...

Institutional Quality, Natural Resource Rent, and Shadow Economy

Natural resource rent affects countries’ economies through various channels. Revenues from the natural resources sales are expected to boost countries' economic growth, but the economic experience of recent decades reveals the numerous economic problems in these countries, the most important of which may be the increase in the shadow economy size. Moreover, the institutions specify the signific...

Institutional Quality and International Trade

Institutions — quality of contract enforcement, property rights, shareholder protection, and the like — have received a great deal of attention in recent years. Yet trade theory has not considered the implications of institutional differences, beyond treating them simply as different technologies or taxes. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we propose a simple model of international t...