Includes bibliographical references and index.

On institutions and growth / Philippe Aghion -- Financial institutional reform, growth, and equality / Costas Azariadis, David de la Croix -- How do institutions lead some countries to produce so much more output per worker than others? / Theo S. Eicher, Cecilia García-Peñalosa, Utku Teksoz -- Regulation and economic performance : product market reforms and productivity in the OECD / Giuseppe Nicoletti, Stefano Scarpetta -- Institutions and technological innovation during early economic growth : evidence from great inventors in the United States, 1790-1930 / B. Zorina Khan, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- On the efficacy of reforms : policy tinkering, institutional change, and entrepreneurship / Murat Iyigun, Dani Rodrik -- The role of higher education institutions : recruitment of elites and economic growth / Elise S. Brezis, François Crouzet -- Growth and endogenous political institutions / Matteo Cervellati, Piergiuseppe Fortunato, Uwe Sunde -- The road from agriculture / Thorvaldur Gylfason, Gylfi Zoega.

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