Institutions For Development and Growth

MIT Press Forthcoming

I. Introduction

I. On Institutions and Growth

1. On Institutions and Growth

Philippe Aghion, Harvard University

II. The Impact of Institutions on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

2. Institutions and Technological Innovation during Early Economic Growth: Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930

B. Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College and NBER, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

3. Entrepreneurship: First Results from Russia

Simeon Djankov , Edward Miguel, Yingyi Qian, Gerard Roland, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

III. Institutional Reform and Economic Performance

4. On the Efficacy of Reforms: Policy Tinkering, Institutional Change, and Entrepreneurship,

Murat Iyigun, University of Colorado, and Dani Rodrik, Harvard University

5. Financial Institutional Reform, Growth and Equality

David de la Croix, CORE, and Costas Azariadis, UCLA

6. Do Regulatory Reforms Promote Labor Utilization, Productivity and Growth? The Experience of OECD Countries

Guiseppe Nicoletti, OECD and Stefano Scarpetta, World Bank

IV. Endogenous institutions

7. The Role of Higher Education Institutions: Recruitment of Power Elites and Growth

Elise S. Brezis, Bar-Ilan University and François Crouzet, University of Paris IV Sorbonne

1. Growth and Endogenous Political Institutions

Matteo Cervellati, Universitat Pompeu Fabra/Universita di Bologna, Piergiuseppe Fortunato, EUREQua/Universita di Bologna, and Uwe Sunde, University of Bonn, IZA

2. The Road From Agriculture

Gylfi Zoega, Birkbeck College and Thorvaldur Gylfason, University of Iceland

V. Institutions and Output Levels: Data and Evidence

3. Institutional Profiles: A New Data set on Institutional Measures

Pierre Berthelier, French Ministry of the Economy, Alain Desdoigts, Université de Bourgogne, and Jacques Ould-Aoudia, French Ministry of the Economy

4. How Do Institutions Lead Some Countries To Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Others?

Theo Eicher, University of Washington, Cecilia García-Peñalosa, GREQAM, Utku Teksoz, University of Munich