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Rule of law, economic structure and development

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  • Roberto M. Samaniego
  • Juliana Y. Sun

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If rule of law encourages relationship‐specific investments, then industries that use intermediates which require relationship‐specific investments should have a disproportionately low share of output or labour in countries where rule of law is weak. We find robust support for this prediction using data on industry composition for 189 countries. Using a standard preference framework to construct model‐implied income values from the estimated coefficients, we find that the interaction between relationship specificity and rule of law may be an economically significant determinant of aggregate outcomes through its influence on productivity and economic structure. Primauté du droit, structure et développement économiques. Si la primauté du droit encourage les investissements propres à une relation contractuelle, alors les industries utilisant des intermédiaires ayant besoin de ce type d'investissements devraient avoir une part disproportionnellement faible d'extrants ou de main‐d'œuvre dans les pays où la primauté du droit est faible. Nous constatons un soutien robuste à cette hypothèse en utilisant des données sur la composition de l'industrie de 189 pays. À l'aide d'un cadre de préférence classique pour construire des valeurs de revenu découlant du modèle à partir de coefficients estimés, nous constatons que l'interaction entre la spécificité de la relation et la primauté du droit pourrait être un déterminant économique important des résultats regroupés en raison de son influence sur la productivité et la structure économique.

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  • Roberto M. Samaniego & Juliana Y. Sun, 2024. "Rule of law, economic structure and development," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 57(4), pages 1265-1284, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:canjec:v:57:y:2024:i:4:p:1265-1284
    DOI: 10.1111/caje.12743
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