Although the homo oeconomicus model has considerable predictive power with regard to the operation of the law the …

also discusses the efficiency of trust and the role of the law in separating trustworthy from non trustworthy people. …

federal law is equal in both regions which allows us to investigate the effect of cultural differences on corporate governance …

finance. It is a natural extension of "Law and finance: why does legal origin matter?" by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç …) hypotheses that English common-law countries tend to have better developed financial intermediaries than French civil-law …

This paper assesses how legal origin influences financial development through regulation quality and the rule of law …. It employs all the dimensions identified by the Financial Development and Structure Database of the World Bank. The law … size. The results broadly support the benefits of law mechanisms in financial development. The findings only show partial …

This paper cuts adrift the mainstream approach to the legal-origins debate on the law-growth nexus by integrating both … overall economic and human components in our understanding of how regulation quality and the rule of law lie at the heart of … growth and human development beyond the mechanisms of law. Our results support the current consensus that, English common-law …