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The Long-Run Consequences of The Opium Concessions for Out-Group Animosity on Java
This article examines the consequences of the opium concession system in the Dutch East Indies—a nineteenth-century institution through which the Dutch would auction the monopolistic right to sell...
A Method to Reduce Type 1 Error while Maintaining Power Using Split Samples
August 2015
Abstract: We discuss a method aimed at reducing the risk that spurious results are published. Researchers send their datasets to an independent third party who randomly generates training and...
The Tortuous Trajectories of Democracy and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in Africa
November 2013
Abstract: This paper offers a systematic account of political regime changes in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1996-2010.
Democracy and Economic Growth: Some Regularities
July 2013
Abstract: The paper summarizes and evaluates our current understanding of relations between democracy and economic growth and analyzes the mechanisms of the causality from democracy to growth....
Performance Legitimacy, State Autonomy and China's Economic Miracle
April 2013
All the theories that explain post-Mao China’s economic success tend to attribute it to one or several “successful” policies or institutions of the Chinese government, or to account for the success...
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
April 2011
Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that...
Contract Enforcement and Firm Organization: Evidence from the Indian Textile Industry
October 2009
Using new field-level and international survey evidence we highlight one channel via which weak legal institutions may lower Indian productivity and growth.
Development and Practice of Arbitration in India --Has It Evolved as an Effective Legal Institution?
October 2009
The significant increase in the role of international trade in the economic development of nations over the last few decades has been accompanied by a considerable increase in the number of...
Gurgaon and Faridabad - An Exercise in Contrasts
September 2009
There is a general sense that the legal system in India is inefficient.
Distribution of Highways Public Private Partnerships in India: Key Legal and Economic Determinants
September 2009
Private sector participation and private investment have become the mainstay of the Government of India's policy toward infrastructural development.
Crime, War and Global Trafficking: Designing International Cooperation
July 2009
Globalization creates lucrative opportunities for traffickers of drugs, dirty money, blood diamonds, weapons, and other contraband.
Can Development Aid Contribute to Social Cohesion after Civil War? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia
May 2009
Civil war is very common in the developing world, with harmful welfare effects when it occurs.
India's Intellectual Property Regime: A Counterbalance to Market Liberalization?
February 2009
The impact of intellectual property laws on national economic development is complex and poorly understood.
Land Rights without Laws: Understanding Property Rights Institutions, Growth, and Development in Rural India
February 2009
Theorists of new institutional economics are often accused of treating formal property rights institutions as a silver bullet for solving problems of economic growth, political development, and...
The Effects of Employment Protection Legislation on Indian Manufacturing
January 2009
This paper summarizes and extends my earlier critique (Bhattacharjea, 2006) of the empirical literature on labour regulation and industrial performance in India.
What It Takes to Be Satisfied at Work: Health, Voice and Work Satisfaction in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
January 2009
Using People's Security data from three countries, Argentina, Brazil and Chile, the article examines which objective and subjective work place factors increase work satisfaction.
The Impact of Administrative Power on Political and Economic Developments: Toward a Political Economy of Implementation
December 2008
Why did limited government and 'constitutionalism' (the rule of law, constitutional rules, and political representation) evolve in some societies but not others?
Transformative Engagement Through Law: The <i>Acquis Communautaire</i> as an Instrument of EU External Influence
December 2007
The inquiry into the economics, political and legal reasons for third countries to align, or refrain from aligning, their domestic rules, institutions and policies with the acquis communautaire,...
Political Liberalism Abroad
January 2007
This paper was discussed at the Global Justice workshop on January 19, 2007.Excerpt from pages 2 through 3 of Michael Blake's "Political Liberalism Abroad": Whereas Rawls himself emphasizes...
Capital Account Liberalization, the Cost of Capital, and Economic Growth
January 2007
Capital account liberalization was once seen as an inevitable step along the path to economic development for poor countries.
A Win-Win U.S. Strategy for Dealing with Iran
December 2006
In an article written for the current issue of the Washington Quarterly by Larry Diamond, Michael McFaull and Abbas Milani, suggests that the U.S.
Beyond Corporate Codes of Conduct: Work Organization and Labor Standards in Two Mexican Garment Factories
August 2006
This paper was discussed at the Global Justice workshop on October 20, 2006.Abstract of Richard Locke's "Beyond Corporate Codes of Conduct: Work Organization and Labor Standards in Two Mexican...
Applying the Odious Debts Doctrine while Preserving Legitimate Lending
June 2006
This paper was discussed at the Global Justice workshop on November 3, 2006.
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