La Porta, R.; Lopez-de-Silanes, F.; Shleifer, A.; … - Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), … - 1998
assess government performance using measures of government intervention, public sector efficiency, public good provision, and … socialist laws, or have high proportions of Catholics or Muslims exhibit inferior government performance. We also find that the … government performance across countries sheds light on the economic, political, and cultural theories of institutions. …