Institutional investors enjoy a significant influence on the corporations and play a strategic role because of owning a considerable portion of corporate shares and due to their supervision role. Moreover, they have sufficient incentives and authority to closely monitor the managers and make changes in the corporate structures. This paper is to examine the effects of the presence of institution...

Nowadays, the majority of economists believe that by taking advantages of the patterns of institutional development, economic progress can be brought to the country. In this case, however, it’s inexorably important to understand the principles of institutional economics. Hence, in this research we try to consider moral principles of institutional approach as well as the principles of philosophy...

    The number of factors affecting total factor productivity has been increasing far from those which considered in growth models. So, institutional factors have been attracting strong attention of researchers. This paper aims at investigating the effects of these institutional factors together with traditional factors on TFP growth during 1971-2007.   For this purpose, we present a State-Spac...

Instead of surveying the effects of institutions on economic growth through statistical analysis, this study tries to review them from the standpoint of institutional theorists with the aim of giving some explanations on economic growth. The study reveals that formulating appropriate policies to expedite economic growth, which is indeed resulted from the impacts of various institutional element...