Economic Development, Legality, and the Transplant Effect

Daniel Berkowitz, Katharina Pistor and Jean-Francois Richard

No 308, William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series from William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Abstract: We analyze the determinants of effective legal institutions (legality) using data from 49 countries. We show that the way the law was initially transplanted and received is a more important determinant than the supply of law from a particular legal family. Countries that have developed legal orders internally, adapted the transplanted law, and/or had a population that was already familiar with basic principles of the transplanted law have more effective legality than countries that received foreign law without any similar pre-dispositions. The transplanting process has a strong indirect effect on economic development via its impact on legality.

Keywords: transplant versus origin; receptive; unreceptive; direct and indirect transplants; legality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K00 O1 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pages
Date: 2000-02-01
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