Political Risk

Transparency International (institution’s website) Bribe Payers Index Report 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 Global Corruption Barometer 2013 Polity IV (institution’s website) Armed Conflict and Intervention (ACI) Datasets Polity IV State Fragility Index and Matrix Conflict in India Datasets Political Institutions (authors’ article) Database of Political Institutions 2012 (Updated Jan 2013) Worldwide Governance (institution’s website) Worldwide Governance […]

Transatlantic postdoctoral fellowship for international relations and security

European Union Institute for Security Studies, EU The European Union Institute for Security Studies invites applications for its transatlantic postdoctoral fellowship for international relations and security. This enables candidates who have recently received their doctorate in social and political sciences or economics, and whose work focuses on international relations, peace or security issues, to spend […]

Featured Article: Lim (2013)

“Institutional and Structural Determinants of Investment Worldwide” by Jamus Jerome Lim Abstract This paper considers institutional and structural factors associated with investment activity in a panel of up to 129 developed and developing countries. It introduces these factors to a standard neoclassical investment function for open economies, and find that financial development and institutional quality are […]