In the past decade a comparative law and economics literature has emerged that is largely organized around an effort to … explain differences in country economic performance in terms of differences between common law and civil code systems …. Assumptions about differences between common law and civil code regimes and the correspondence between legal regimes and judicial …

The new comparative economics is largely organized around an effort to explain differences in country economic … performance in terms of differences between common law and civil code systems. Assumptions about differences between common law … quality of law developed by a legal regime, drawing on a model from Hadfield (2006) which identifies five key parameters that …