Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson wrote a paper trying to explain the fact that there is faster economic growth in countries with moderate climates as opposed to countries with tropical climates. They argued that institutions established by colonial settlers in moderate climates while institutions established by colonists in tropical climates O protected property rights; were extractive and authoritarian O were based on French law; were based on English law were based on English law; were based on French law O were extractive and authoritarian; protected property rights