With the increasing numbers of immigrants seeking to obtain political asylum, the receiving conditions and the deportability of refused asylum seekers have emerged as major issues. Concern with these questions has been addressed through renewed asylum policies involving expeditious processing of applications, tight restrictions upon the right to work, removal of support or detention for failed ...

Drawing from research on strategic choice, this study investigates the relationship between market turbulence and firms’ sustainable behavior, in the context of sustainabilityrelated institutional adversity. It argues that the relationship between market turbulence and sustainability is mediated by network embeddedness, and this mediating role in turn is moderated by a firm’s innovative orienta...

This paper uses a large panel of financial flow data from banks to assess how institutions affect international lending. First, employing a time varying composite institutional quality index in a fixed-effects framework, the paper shows that institutional improvements are followed by significant increases in international finance. Second, cross-sectional models also show a strong effect of init...

* I would like to thank Philip Keefer for the institutional data. Responsibility for all errors, omissions, and opinions rests solely with the author. All findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. This paper assesses th...

The prime objective of the study is to examine asymmetric effect institutional quality and other control variables on environmental sustainability in G7 economies. examined data from 1986 2020 using a nonlinear ARDL (NARDL) technique. outcomes show heterogeneous results for sampled findings confirm relationship between quality, foreign direct investment, trade openness, economic growth, countri...