Am 1. Dezember 2009 trat der Vertrag von Lissabon nach seiner Ratifizierung durch alle 27 Mitgliedstaaten in Kraft. Er bringt Änderungen sowohl für das Recht als auch für die Institutionen der EU mit sich. // Mit dem ABC des Rechts der Europäischen Union legt Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Borchardt...

Legal systems provide the basic institutions for firms and markets to operate. Their quality can have important consequences on the size distribution of firms, who rely on them for contract enforcement. This paper uses the variation in legal system quality across states in Mexico to examine the...

Mexico has embarked on a bold package of structural reforms that will help it to break away from three decades of slow growth and low productivity. Major structural measures have been legislated to improve competition, education, energy, the financial sector, labour, infrastructure and the tax...

Economic growth is below what would be needed to resume rapid convergence to average OECD living standards. On-going efforts to improve the business climate are laudable, but need to be widened and strengthened. Much progress has been achieved in reducing red tape, but it is only recently that...

Combining existing information with a newly collected dataset, the paper develops indicators of the performance and the institutional characteristics of OECD judicial systems. It provides cross-country comparisons of measures of trial length, accessibility to justice services and predictability...