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TILEC Lecture by Gani Aldashev

Date: Time: 14:00 Location: ONLINE Meeting

Legal Institutions and Economic Development

What role do legal institutions play in economic development? This lecture will review some of the recent literature and debates in development economics focusing on this broad topic. We will start with the broad distinction between legal systems and the correlations between various measures of legal institutions and development outcomes. We will then introduce a simple theoretical framework to interpret those empirical regularities, in the light of developing-country institutional imperfections. Next, we will focus on the interaction between formal law and informal legal institutions, which are key in many developing countries. We will conclude by a discussion of potential promising avenues for future research.


Gani Aldashev

Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles and Ronald Coase Visiting Professor, Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Tilburg University


10 December 2020, 2-4 pm CET via Zoom

All Tilburg University graduate students and faculty are welcome to attend.

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Readings

The economic consequences of legal origins

Journal of Economic Literature 46.2 (2008): 285-332.

La Porta, Rafael, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer.

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Unbundling institutions

Journal of Political Economy 113.5 (2005): 949-995.

Acemoglu, Daron, and Simon Johnson.

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Endogenous enforcement institutions

Journal of Development Economics 128 (2017): 49-64.

Aldashev, Gani, and Giorgio Zanarone.

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Economic development, legality, and the transplant effect

European Economic Review 47.1 (2003): 165-195.

Berkowitz, Daniel, Katharina Pistor, and Jean-Francois Richard.

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Using the law to change the custom

Journal of Development Economics 97, no. 2 (2012): 182-200. 2

Aldashev, Gani, Imane Chaara, Jean-Philippe Platteau, and Zaki Wahhaj.

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Empowering women? Inheritance rights, female education and dowry payments in India

Journal of Development Economics 114 (2015): 233-251.

Roy, Sanchari.

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Customary norms, inheritance, and human capital: evidence from a reform of the matrilineal system in Ghana

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 9.4 (2017): 166-85.

La Ferrara, Eliana, and Annamaria Milazzo.

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