The paper investigates theoretically and empirically the role of courts for contract enforcement in transition … courts to enforce contracts with their most important customer. Furthermore, those who believe the legal system could be used … farmers' responds can be explained by cost-benefit calculations regarding the use of courts, (2) the legal "enforceability" of …

This paper uses data from a large survey of firms across 26 transition countries to examine the determinants of trust … in the transition process. We first introduce a new measure of trust between firms: the level of prepayment demanded by … courts are more important determinants of inter-firm trust than the courts’ efficiency or ability to enforce decisions. We …

testable implications from a game theoretical model, I examine how case pendency rates in India's state courts affect the …

High Courts hal already enacted some of the amendments contained in this reform a long time ago. This spatial variation in …

-experimental variation in legal contract enforcement wherein the US Congress externally assigned state courts to adjudicate contracts on a … subset of reservations. According to area-specific data on small business credit, reservations assigned to state courts …, which enforce contracts more predictably than tribal courts, have stronger credit markets. Moreover, the law …

debate among NATO members, is of special relevance for the peaceful transition of other post-socialist countries, e …

We extend the scarce evidence on labor supply in post-transition countries by estimating the wage elasticity of labor …