Albania has opportunities to attract foreign direct investments in several sectors of economies: agriculture, manufacture economy, tourism etc. Albania has a great potential, but the domestic capital is very low and it is not enable to utilize these opportunities. The aim of our paper is to...

The relationship between law and economic development remains enigmatic. Broadly speaking, there is no doubt that legal mechanisms for social control (or ‘institutions’, to use North's words) play a major role. Nevertheless, the impact of legal organization on economic development has not...

The evolutions of the bankruptcy law seek to reach many aims: economic safety, firms' creation and expansion in a capitalist economy, protection of the interests of the agents involved in transactions that goes far beyond creditors and debtors, and prolongation of the activity of viable firms....

This paper examines the effect that a country’s business regulatory environment has on the amount of foreign direct investment it attracts. We use the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking to capture the costs that firms face when operating in a country. Several interesting results...

A significant strand of the recent literature suggests that «excessive» regulation and a heavy administrative burden on firms obstruct market entrance and reduce funding for investment projects, thus damaging competition and growth. The Italian system has a poor ranking in international...

Through time growing attention has been paid to the «new contents» of the development gap between the South of Italy and the rest of the Country; these deal with essential services nationally and locally regulated as well as the efficiency of Public Administrations. A substantial inefficiency...

This paper studies the effects of differences in local administrative burdens in Italy in the years preceding a major reform that sped up firm registration procedures. Combining regulatory data from a survey on Italian provinces before the reform (costs and time to start a business) with...

Between 2003 and 2008 productivity patterns diverged between the fast growing, newest members of the European Union and the slower paced, elder ones – as would be expected. However, there are also striking divergences within the latter group, with productivity in Southern Europe going into...

Este texto para discussão pretende resumir brevemente a literatura existente sobre a análise do tempo de abertura de negócios no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Os principais resultados de cada trabalho são apresentados e constata-se em todos eles a inclinação de um elevado tempo para abertura...

Este texto para discussão tem como objetivo apresentar os resultados do ITAN (indicador de tempo para abertura de negócios), por etapa do processo de abertura. Para isso, foi realizado um levantamento dos procedimentos e instituições a serem percorridas com o intuito de se abrir um novo...