De jure judicial independence (JI) is the single most important predictor of de facto JI. In this paper, we describe under what conditions countries are likely to include JI in their constitutions. We describe and analyze both their original choice in this regard as well as change over time...

This paper provides an analysis of the convergence pattern of German housing prices and rents employing a new dataset that covers all the country’s administrative districts. In addition to conventional tests for 𝛽-convergence and 𝜎-convergence, we apply Phillips and Sul’s (2007)...