Economic Performance

World Economic Forum (institution’s website) Global Competitiveness Report 2011-2012 Global Gender Gap Report 2013 Global Risks 2013 Human Capital Report Penn World Table (institution’s website) PWT 8.0 PWT 7.1 United Nations Development Programme (institution’s website) Human Development Index (HDI) The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute (institution’s website) GEDI Index 2014 MOxLAD (institution’s website) The Montevideo-Oxford Latin […]

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 […]

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 […]