...Soran Mohtadi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the resource rents–quality-adjusted human capital nexus and the impact of quality of institutions. Design/methodology/approach For a large data set of 161 countries for the period 1996–2018 (yearly and 4-year periods), fixed...

... of the economic dependency on natural resources and (2) an indirect impact via its effect on colonial institutions, which persisted over time and influenced current economic development. Design/methodology/approach To address this issue, the authors use an original data set on French bilateral trade from 1880...

...Constantinos Alexiou; Sofoklis Vogiazas; Nikita Solovev Purpose The relationship between institutional quality and economic growth is revisited. Design/methodology/approach A panel cointegration methodology and causality analysis are applied to 27 postsocialist economies over the period from...

... The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of corruption and institutional governance indicators on capital flight in Sub-Saharan Africa. This section is aimed at reviewing the theoretical and empirical studies on capital flight and corruption. The variable of interest, corruption...

...Ibrahim Dolapo Raheem; Kazeem Bello Ajide; Oluwatosin Adeniyi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of institutions in the financial development-output growth volatility nexus. It provides new channels through which financial development can dampen the output growth...

... aims to analyze the impacts of Brazilian municipalities institutional quality on their levels of per capita income. Design/methodology/approach – Institutionalist theory provides a plausible explanation for the gap among municipalities income level. Many empirical studies based on cross...