Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2009
Publication Title
American Economic Journal - Economic Policy
Department
Tuck School of Business
Abstract
Simeon Djankov et al. (2003) introduce a measure of the quality of contract enforcement -- the formalism of civil procedure -- for 109 countries as of 2000. For 40 of these countries, we compute procedural formalism every year since 1950. We find that large differences in procedural formalism between common and civil law countries existed in 1950 and widened by 2000. For this area of law, the findings are inconsistent with the hypothesis that national legal systems are converging, and support the view that legal origins exert long lasting influence on legal rules. (JEL K41, O17)
DOI
10.1257/pol.1.2.138
Original Citation
Balas, Aron, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. 2009. "The Divergence of Legal Procedures." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 1 (2): 138-62.DOI: 10.1257/pol.1.2.138
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Balas, Aron; La Porta, Rafael; Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio; and Shleifer, Andrei, "The Divergence of Legal Procedures" (2009). Dartmouth Scholarship. 2370.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/2370
