The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins

By R. La Porta, Florencio Lopez‐de‐Silanes, A. Shleifer. 2008

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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2. Pierre Cahuc
3. Luigi Zingales
4. David I. Stern
5. Andreas P. Kyriacou
6. Keith Chen
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2. Yann Algan
3. Pierre Cahuc
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2. Pierre Cahuc
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Citations in the corpus

• Family Values and the Regulation of Labor (2015, neutral): “[47] La Porta, R.”
• Institutions: Rules or Equilibria? (2011, neutral): “La Porta et al. (2008) find that countries’ legal origins affect economic outcomes.”
• The European Trust Crisis and the Rise of Populism (2017, neutral): “…alarming, given that an independent, impartial, and well-functioning legal and judicial system is a key pillar of modern capitalist societies and democracies (Hayek 1960), guaranteeing freedom (La Porta and others 2004), and promoting development (La Porta, López-de-Silanes, and Shleifer 2008).”
• Disclosure by Politicians (2010, neutral): “The omitted legal origin is English Common law. source: La Porta et al (2008). notes: This table describes the variables collected for the 175 countries in our study.”
• Historical Traditions of Civicness and Local Economic Development (2009, neutral): “C© 2009, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2009.00624.x 833 Although the economists’ emphasis has been so far on formal rules (see La Porta et al., 2008) the concept of institutions is wider.”
• Role of Country- and Firm-Level Determinants in Environmental, Social, and Governance Disclosure (2016, neutral): “Country-specific variables are taken from La Porta et al. (2008), Williamson (2009), and Dhaliwal et al. (2014), while firm-specific variables are from Datastream and ESG data from the Bloomberg ESG database.”
• Cross‐Country Determinants of Early‐Stage Necessity and Opportunity‐Motivated Entrepreneurship: Accounting for Model Uncertainty (2018, positive): “…decades, social scientists have produced a considerable body of theoretical and empirical research suggesting that the historical origins of a country’s legal system and regulatory policies can affect a broad range of developmental outcomes (e.g., see La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, and Shleifer 2008).”