Essays in Comparative Institutional Economics

[disertacija]

Peter Grajžl (Avtor), Peter Murrell (Mentor)

Povzetek

This dissertation examines how decentralized institutional structures and organizational forms evolve and affect economic development under different politico-economic and legal arrangements. Organized legal professions are typically viewed by economists as rent-seeking interest groups - even though they have been central in institutional development in countries with the highest quality institutions. Chapter 1 develops a model that identifies the link between the role of organized legal professions and the quality of reform. Delaying institutional reform through deliberation, the profession's participation discounts the expected benefit from welfare-inferior reform proposal for rent-seeking interest groups. Professional review serves as a screening mechanism ameliorating the self-interested government's adverse selection problem. The model's predictions cast new light on the Glorious and the French revolutions, post-communist transition, why and when civil law and common law systems ...

Ključne besede

ekonomija;ekonomska teorija;civilna družba;pravni sistem;zgodovina;

Podatki

Jezik:	Angleški jezik
Leto izida:	2005
Izvor:	College Park
Tipologija:	2.08 - Doktorska disertacija
Organizacija:	UP - Univerza na Primorskem
Založnik:	University of Maryland
UDK:	330:94
COBISS:	3084247
Št. ogledov:	13706
Št. prenosov:	71
Ocena:	0 (0 glasov)
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Ostali podatki

Sekundarni jezik:	Neznan jezik
Vrsta dela (COBISS):	Doktorska disertacija
Komentar na gradivo:	University of Maryland
Strani:	IX, 140 str.
Ključne besede (UDK):	social sciences;družbene vede;economics;economic science;ekonomija;ekonomske vede;economics in general;ekonomija na splošno;ekonomisti;ekonomske vede;geography;biography;history;geografija;biografija;zgodovina;general history;splošna zgodovina;
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