Economic development, legality, and the transplant effect

European Economic Review

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 165-195

  Berkowitz, Daniel ^a,b   Pistor, Katharina ^c   Richard, Jean Francois ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Columbia Law School ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Demand for law; Legal families; Legal origins; Legal transplants; Transplant effect

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH DETERMINATION; LEGAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0037306950     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(01)00196-9     Document Type: Article

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