The quality of government

Porta, Rafael La; López-de-Silanes, Florencio; Shleifer, Andrei; Vishny, Robert W.

doi:10.1093/jleo/15.1.222

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“…The Political scientists and economists suggested a number of economic, political and social characteristics that vary from country to country; which might affect expected costs, benefits, or both 9 . The most obvious and harmful cost of a corrupt act is the risk of getting caught and punished that ultimately depends on the legal system of the country [La Porta et al 1999]. …”

Section: Corruption: Definition Measurement and Its Determinantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Determinants of Corruption in Developing Countries

Chaudhry¹,

Shabbir²

2022

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Section: Corruption: Definition Measurement and Its Determinantsmentioning

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“…The negative relation of corruption with democracy, press freedom and share of population affiliated with particular religion is strongly recommended by various studies; (2001) and La Porta et al (1999).…”

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Determinants of Corruption in Developing Countries

Chaudhry¹,

Shabbir²

2022

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“…This related to the issue of legal origin, originally classified by La Porta et al (1999) into five broad categories: English, French, German, Scandinavian and Socialist (Communist). According to La Porta et al (1999), the legal origin can be viewed as a proxy for the government's proclivity to intervene in the economy and the stance of the law toward security of property rights in a country. In light of our discussion above, it is not surprising that the English origin dimension, here seen as a benchmark, correlates closely with the summary average ‚Economic Freedom‛ indicator.…”

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“…This is also consistent with Djankov et al (2002), who demonstrate that countries of French, German and Socialist legal origin have more entry regulations than English legal origin countries, while countries of Scandinavian legal origin have about the same. We use the legal origin categories as defined by La Porta et al (1999) as independent variables in our analysis.…”

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Institutions, Finance and the Level of Development: the Impact on Entrepreneurship in Transition

Aidis

Estrin

Mickiewicz

2010

REI

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Abstract:We investigate the impact of institutions on entrepreneurial entry, based on a large cross-country sample, combining working age population data generated by the GEM project with macro level indicators. Our four key findings indicate that: (a) institutional obstacles to entrepreneurship have different impact in rich countries compared to poor countries; (b) institutional obstacles have a stronger impact on 'opportunity entrepreneurship' than on 'necessity entrepreneurship'; (c) two institutional indicators -property right protection and access to finance -appear to have a dominant impact on entrepreneurship; (d) institutions have a long term impact. More than ten years after the Soviet system imploded in Central and Eastern Europe, these countries still experience significantly lower levels of entrepreneurship than economies coming from different legal traditions.JEL classification: L26, P14, P51, P37

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“…Several authors have argued: societies that are ethnically or linguistically fractionalized are more likely to have corrupt governments; bureaucrats under these regimes may be more prone to single out and favor their own ethnic groups (La Porta et al, 1999;Alesina et al 2003;Fearon, 2003). Since the percentage of a nation's ethnic fractionalization is to a large extent determined historically and often established in colonial times, thus it is unlikely that ethnic fractionalization (ETHNIC) will be correlated with the disturbance in the competition agency performance model.…”

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Does Legal Tradition Affect Competition Policy Performance?

Rodriguez

2007

The International Trade Journal

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During the early 1990's, in the early days of the worldwide competition policy boom, Spencer Waller and Joshua Newberg argued that difficulties inherent in grafting common law concepts---such as antitrust---onto non common law traditions would undermine the administration of competition law in non common law tradition countries. Recent independent survey data on the performance of competition programs in 102 nations shows deplorable differences in performance, lending some weight to the WallerNewberg thesis.This article tests whether differences in legal tradition contributes to the observed variance in competition agency performance.A careful understanding of the influence of legal tradition and other factors underscoring the relevance, shortcomings and problems of competition policy performance are useful for determining whether competition programs should be at all reproduced elsewhere, whether they should be modified prior to adoption or whether they should be adopted verbatim. Familiarity with performance factors is also useful both for program administration and program sequencing. Comparative examinations of competition programs enable decision-makers to properly allocate resources and to address policy issues.

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The quality of government

Cited by 4,564 publications

References 26 publications

Determinants of Corruption in Developing Countries

Determinants of Corruption in Developing Countries

Institutions, Finance and the Level of Development: the Impact on Entrepreneurship in Transition

Does Legal Tradition Affect Competition Policy Performance?

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