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On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions : Communities and Courts
Masten, Scott E.; Prufer, Jens - 2014
We analyze the capacities of communities (or social networks) and courts to secure cooperation among heterogeneous …, impersonal transactors. We find that communities and courts are complementary in that they tend to support cooperation for … different types of transactions but that the existence of courts weakens the effectiveness of community enforcement. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014180666
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On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions : Communities and Courts
Masten, Scott E.; Prufer, Jens - 2016
We analyze the capacities of communities (or social networks) and courts to secure cooperation among heterogeneous …, impersonal transactors. We find that communities and courts are complementary in that they tend to support cooperation for … different types of transactions but that the existence of courts weakens the effectiveness of community enforcement. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185419
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Law and social capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany
Buggle, Johannes C. - 2013
Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317548
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Law and social capital : evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany
Buggle, Johannes C. - 2013 - This version: July 2, 2013
Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775710
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Taxes, lawyers, and the decline of witch trials in France
Johnson, Noel D; Koyama, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
during this period. Further historical evidence supports our hypothesis that higher taxes led to better legal institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325592
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Law and Social Capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany
Buggle, Johannes C. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896247
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Can We Rehabilitate the Guilds? A Sceptical Re-Appraisal
Ogilvie, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2007
This paper examines recent attempts to rehabilitate pre-modern craft guilds as efficient economic institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005647427
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Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830
Bogart, Dan; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Between 1660 and 1830, Parliament passed thousands of acts restructuring rights to real and equitable estates. These estate acts enabled individuals and families to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange, and improve land previously bound by inheritance rules and other legal legacies. The loosening of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830552
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: MEDIEVAL VENICE’S RESPONSE TO GLOBALIZATION
Puga, Diego; Trefler, Daniel - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) - 2013
International trade can have profound effects on domestic institutions. We examine this proposition in the context of … institutions that facilitated long-distance trade e.g., the colleganza. However, starting in 1297, a small group of particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676267
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International trade and institutional change: Medieval Venice's response to globalization
Puga, Diego; Trefler, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
International trade can have profound effects on domestic institutions. We examine this proposition in the context of … institutions that facilitated longdistance trade e.g., the colleganza. However, starting in 1297, a small group of particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084575