Do We See Convergence in Institutions? A Cross-Country Analysis
研究了1970年代至2010年间各国法律制度、官僚和行政制度质量的趋同现象，发现初始制度较差的国家会缓慢追赶，但这种趋同可能是冷战结束后的暂时效应。
Differences in the quality of institutions may explain differences in per capita income. Yet, we know relatively little on how institutions evolve. This paper contributes to such knowledge by testing for convergence in legal, bureaucratic and administrative institutional quality. Using cross-section and panel methods on a large sample of countries from the 1970s to 2010, we find that countries with initially poor institutions tended to slowly catch up, both when they shared the same initial conditions and when they did not. However, the convergence process seems to be a temporary effect following the end of the Cold War.