In recent years, there has been a huge increase in interest in the environment and its interaction with the economy. A key feature of this literature is its recognition of the interdependence between the economy and the environment. In general, this interdependence operates in both directions and it is poorly understood. A rather overlooked issue is how economic institutions a¤ect our ability a...

The National Science Foundation and others conclude that institutional transformation is required to ensure equal opportunities for the participation and advancement of men and women in academic science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Such transformation requires changing the habitual attitudes and behaviors of faculty. Approaching implicit bias as a remediable habi...

The concept of institutional complementarity – that the co-existence of two or more institutions enhances the functioning of each – is frequently used to explain why institutions are resistant to change and why introducing new institutions into a system often fails to achieve the intended objective. This paper utilizes examples from comparative political economy to delineate the concept and add...

This paper conducts a crosscountry empirical study of the impact of institutions and agency conflicts on ownership reforms and their implications for changes in performance and efficiency. We examine two main questions. First, we evaluate the effects of certain property rights and institutional quality measures on performance and efficiency. We find that property rights and contracting rights p...

How do institutions of the European Union change? Using an institutionalist approach, this article highlights the interplay between power, cognitive limits, and the normative order that underpins institutional settings and assesses their impact upon the process of institutional change. Empirical evidence from recent attempts to reinforce the protection of the free movement of goods in the EU su...

This paper aims to critically review current discussions on the “reinvention” of spatial planning, postulating an all-encompassing and unproblematic shift towards new rationales, scopes, actors and instruments in planning practice. Buzzwords are, among others, “governance”, “collaborative planning” and the “communicative turn”. To overcome the somehow normative bias of these terms, the term “pl...

This paper gives an overview of various approaches to how innovations affect economic growth: from standard macroeconomic equilibrium theory, growth accounting, new growth theories, catching-up theories, evolutionary theories based on theories of techno-economic paradigms and co-evolution to a systems of innovation approach. The paper focuses on approaches which sees growth as emanating from pr...