Structure of economic system: institutional context

Institutional and economic determinants of public health system performance.

OBJECTIVES Although a growing body of evidence demonstrates that availability and quality of essential public health services vary widely across communities, relatively little is known about the factors that give rise to these variations. We examined the association of institutional, financial, and community characteristics of local public health delivery systems and the performance of essentia...

InstItutIOnal structure

By examining several different types of open institutions including open source software, open science and open square, this paper presents a general analysis of open institutional structure that is complementary to traditional proprietary mode. We argue that open institutions are essentially about decentralized production of a collective good that relies on voluntary collaboration of highly va...

Institutional change in economic geography

This paper develops a rigorous concept of institutions to investigate the interrelationships between institutional and economic change from the perspective of economic geography. We view institutions neither as behavioural regularities nor as organisations or rules, but conceive institutions as stabilisations of mutual expectations and correlated interaction. The paper discusses how economic in...

Institutional Spillovers and Economic Growth

Institutional Divergence in Economic Development