This paper belongs to the growing body of the ?Law and finance) literature based on timeseries study. It carries out an empirical investigation of the role of corporate governance in financial development. We focus on French corporate governance reforms in order to examine whether these reforms...

Influential perspectives in life course criminology maintain that transitions to adult social roles play an important role in the termination of criminal careers. Along with marriage, employment is frequently associated with potential to assist in the desistance process. At this time, the...

The legal origin literature documents that civil and common law traditions have different impact on rules and economic outcomes. We contribute to this literature by investigating the relationship between corporate social responsibility and legal origins. Consistently with the main differences in...

Re-established in 1867 by the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, parliamentarism institutionalised the powers of the legislature to exercise control over the government in Hungary as well, and Parliament established the State Audit Office to carry out the duty of economic control. However, Act XVIII...

What are the key determinants of financial development and growth? A large literature debates the relative importance of countries' legal and political environment. In this paper, I present evidence from ancient Rome, where an early form of shareholder company, the societas publicanorum,...

The 1960s ushered in a new era in US demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and smaller family sizes. What catalyzed these changes remains a matter of considerable debate. This paper exploits idiosyncratic variation in the language of "Comstock" statutes,...

This paper investigates if past institutional, economic, political, social, and cultural features (i.e legal origins on law and regulations and colonial legacies) interact in shaping the current institutional performances on deforestation in 116 developed and developing countries. A two step...

The aim of this paper is to determine the legal regulation adapted to the development of Internet. We show that the law and economics model is partially transposable in cyberspace legal order. Starting from the statement of similarity between real and virtual world judicial problems, we explain...

Most countries with unicameral parliaments are unitary, non-federal states. These states considered from the very beginning that they do not need a second Chamber, The Upper House, or they had it dissolved later. Unicameralism advocates argue that Upper House’s commonly features , The Senate...

Due to the increasing importance of living in a healthy environment, in the context of enhanced pollution in our days and due to the fact that the European Convention for Protection of Human Rights does not consider this human right, The European Court for Human Right (E.C.H.R.) has decided its...