With the aim of providing a comprehensive analysis of institutions, and of the global economy more generally, this volume explores systems of institutions and the effect of corruption, developments in behavioural economics, the impact of immigration, and the links between democratic progress and economic growth.

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LUIS ANDRES World Bank, Washington DC, USA STEVE BOUCHER University of California, Davis, USA ALESSANDRA CASARICO Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy CARLO DEVILLANOVA Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy C. SIMON FAN Lingnan University, China JOSE LUIS GUASCH World Bank, Washington DC, USA RICHARD GREEN University of Southampton, UK JÁNOS KORNAI Harvard University, USA, Central European University and Collegium, Budapest, Hungary JANA KUNICOVÁ California Institute of Technology, USA LÁSZLÓ MÁTYÁS University of Budapest, Hungary CLAUDE MÉNARD Université de Paris, Panthéon Sorbonne, France MUSTAPHA NABLI World Bank, Washington DC, USA KLARA SABIRIANOVA PETER Georgia State University, USA GÉRARD ROLAND University of California, Berkeley, USA SUSAN ROSE-ACKERMAN Yale University, USA CARLOS SILVA-JÁUREGUI World Bank, Washington DC, USA ODED STARK University of Klagenfurt, Austria; University of Bonn, Germany; Warsaw University, Poland; ESRC, Cologne, Germany STEPHANE STRAUB World Bank, Washington DC, USA JAN SVEJNAR University of Michigan, USA SILKE UEBELMESSER University of Munich, Germany EVGENY YAKOVLEV Centre for Economic, Financial and International Research, Moscow, Russian Federation EKATERINA ZHURAVSKAYA Centre for Economic, Financial and International Research, Moscow, Russian Federation; Centre for Economic Policy Research, UK

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Electoral Rules and Constitutional Structures as Constraints on Corruption; J.Kunicova and S.Rose-Ackerman State Capture from Yeltsin to Putin; E.Zhuravskaya and E.Iakovlev Democracy for Better Governance and Higher Economic Growth in the Middle East and North Africa Region?; M.K.Nabli Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers; K.Sabirianova, J.Svejnar and K.Terrell A Portrait of the Chinese Entrepreneur; G.Roland The Brain Drain, Educated Unemployment, Human Capital Formation and Economic Betterment; C.S.Fan and O.Stark On an Optimal Selective Migration Policy when Information is Asymmetric and Incentives Count; A.Casarico, O.Stark and S.Uebelmesser International Migration, Human Capital Formation and the Setting of Migration Control Policies: Mapping the Gains; A.Casarico, C.Devillanova, O.Stark and S.Uebelmesser A Gain with a Drain? Evidence from Rural Mexico on the New Economics of the Brain Drain; S.Boucher, O.Stark and J.E.Taylor Redesigning Public Utilities: The Key Role of Micro-Institutions; C.Ménard Does Regulation and Institutional Design Matter for Infrastructure Sector Performance?; L.Andres, J.L.Guasch and S.Straub Institutional Design and Energy Reform in the UK; R.Green