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Decoding the Code of Civil Procedure: Do Judiciaries Matter for Growth?

Chemin, Matthieu - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007

This paper attempts to measure the causal impact of the speed of judiciaries on economic activity by using two novel instrumental variables measuring judicial procedural ambiguity and complexity. First, I find that temporally exogenous conflicting judicial decisions taken in India due to the...

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The Impact of the Judiciary on Economic Activity

Chemin, Matthieu - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007

-specific investments, impedes firms' access to formal financial institutions, and favours inefficient dynasties. Moving a firm from the …

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Does Judicial Quality Shape Economic Activity? Evidence from a Judicial Reform in India

Chemin, Matthieu - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007

This paper investigates the impact of judiciaries on firms' contracting behaviour and economic performance. In 2002, the Code of Civil Procedure Amendment Act was enacted in India to facilitate speedy disposal of civil suits. Some State High Courts hal already enacted some of the amendments...

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Access to Justice and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Brazil's Special Civil Tribunals

Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This paper...

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Access to justice and entrepreneurship: evidence from Brazil’s Special Civil Tribunals

Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade … - 2011

Entrepreneurship is usually indentified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This...

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Polycentric governance in collusive agreements

Schmal, Wolfgang Benedikt - 2024

Collusive agreements in the form of cartels among firms are complex structures. The involved firms need to agree on prices and sales quotas that are legally not enforceable. Market characteristics that foster cartels’ failure or success are widely examined. However, the interplay between the...

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Equilibrium Wage Arrears: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Institutional Lock-In

Earle, John S.; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...

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Guard Labor: An Essay in Honor of Pranab Bardhan

Bowles, Samuel; Jayadev, Arjun - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2004

We explore the exercise of power in perpetuating status quo institutions. We give empirical examples of the economic …

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Istituzioni, Diseguaglianza ed Economia Sommersa: quale relazione?

Dell'Anno, Roberto; Amendola, Adalgiso - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Matematiche e … - 2008

In this paper, we investigate on the determinants of the size of shadow economy (SE) in Latin America. While the analysis of economic causes of SE has been extensively studied in literature, here we offer a wider prospective. In addition to overall economic development, unemployment rate, and...

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Institutional Change and Governance Indexes in Transition Economies: the case of Poland

Tridico, Pasquale - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 3 (2006) 2, pp. 197-238

by introduction of law and formal institutions (change "by design"), but also by social norms, old values and habits … (informal institutions). I present an empirical paper focusing on transition of the Polish Economy. I used a questionnaire which … was administered to a sample of about 1000 Polish firms in order to verify the impact of economic institutions on the …

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