Law, endowments, and finance

By Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Ross Levine. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Demography, Information Systems

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Institutions and Financial Development: Evidence from International Migrants in the United States (2008, methodology): “In addition, Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Levine (2003b) 14 The results are also the same if we use the ICRG measure quality of the bureaucracy.”
Do remittances promote financial development (2011, neutral): “11 E.g., La Porta et al. (1997, 1998); Beck et al. (2000a); Beck et al. (2003); and Djankov et al. (2007).”
The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins (2008, neutral): “…to French civil law, common law countries have less formalized contract enforcement, longer constitutional tenure of Supreme Court judges (a direct indicator of independence), and greater recognition of case law as a source of law, which Beck et al. (2003) use as an indicator of adaptability.”
Comparative advantage, demand for external finance, and financial development (2006, methodology): “To this end we estimate the full panel specification given by equation (12) on a sample of non-overlapping five-year averages of all the variables from 1970-74 to 1995-99, as well as 10-year averages for the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.”
What Drives International Financial Flows? Politics, Institutions and Other Determinants (2009, background): “…capital flows and institutional quality may be both affected by hard-to-measure factors such as social capital (e.g. Guiso et al. 2004), religious norms (e.g. Stulz and Williamson, 2003), trust (e.g. Guiso et al. 2007), geography and initial endowments (e.g. Beck, Demirguc-Kunt, and Levine, 2003).”
Bank Governance, Regulation, and Risk Taking (2009, positive): “Based on Beck, Demirguc-Kunt, and Levine (2003, 2006) and Barth, Caprio, and Levine (2006), we use legal origin and the religious composition of each country as instruments for bank regulation.”
Financing Firms in India (2006, neutral): “In its survey of investment climates around the world, the World Bank found that corruption was the number one constraint for firms in South Asia.(10) According to”
Political Rights and the Cost of Debt (2010, neutral): “Beck, Demirguc-Kunt, and Levine (2003) consider the relative importance of legal origins and the natural endowment in explaining financial development.”
Institution building and growth in transition economies (2005, positive): “Secure property rights have been shown to positively impact economic growth through their impact on financial development and firm investment (Besley 1995, Johnson et al. 2002, Beck et al. 2003, and Claessens and Laeven 2003).”