Courts: The Lex Mundi project

By Simeon Djankov, R. La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silane, A. Shleifer. 2002

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Understanding Long-Run African Growth: Colonial Institutions or Colonial Education? (2008, background): “Djankov et al. (2002), Glaeser and Shleifer (2002) and La Porta et al. (1998) address the endogeneity problem besetting institutions by creating a measure of early, colonial era institutions, which preceded developing country current growth performance.”
Capital-Market Effects of Securities Regulation: Prior Conditions, Implementation, and Enforcement (2016, background): “The findings are consistent with the enforcement theory formulated in Djankov et al. (2003a) as well as its application to securities regulation in Shleifer (2005).”
Blunt Instruments: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Identifying the Causes of Economic Growth (2013, background): “Djankov et al. (2003) use legal origin as an instrument for “the degree of formalism of the legal procedure,” which they argue causes a decline in the quality of the legal system (its honesty, impartiality, ability to enforce contracts, and so on) that could be a major determinant of growth.”
Growth Volatility and Financial Liberalization (2005, methodology): “Source: Djankov et al. (2003).”
Relationship Specificity, Incomplete Contracts and the Pattern of Trade (2007, result): “Overall, these estimates are consistent with previous evidence of the relationship between legal origins and judicial quality [e.g., La Porta et al. 1999; Djankov et al. 2003].”