Deadlines are ubiquitous institutions in government decision making, constraining both agencies and courts. Yet these institutions are almost entirely ignored in formal models in institutional political science. We analyze deadlines as exogenously imposed institutions upon a government decision maker, as a means of elected officials exercising control over the the duration of administrative dec...

This work proposes a formal characterization of the schemabased thesaurus mapping problem as well as a specific approach within such framework on a case study aimed at mapping five thesauri of interest for European Union institutions.

Institutional change is crucial for the transitions of socio-technical systems. This study addresses why some actors have strong agency by uncovering determinants their influence on formal institutions. We focused a recent and major policy process in Swiss waste management as empirical case. carried out content analysis consultation documents, expert surveys, online questionnaire social network...

This paper investigates the effect of quality environmental information disclosure firms on their bank financing and further examines moderating formal informal institutions this using China as a laboratory. We find that is positively (negatively) related to scale (cost) financing. Furthermore, institution (proxied by official issuance Green Credit Guidelines) strengthens above relationship. Mo...

There is a growing literature which analyses, using cross-country data, whether institutions or geography is the most important deep determinant of economic development. The empirical proxies for institutions used in this literature focus on the definition of institutions, formal and informal. This study argues that the concept of informal institutions is similar to social capital. However, the...