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History matters, but how? An example of Ottoman and Habsburg legacies and judicial performance in Romania

The paper examines the interdependence of historical legacies and current contextual factors as determinants of economic and political performance. It shows that behavioral patterns based on identical legacies could lead to very different (if not the opposite) results in regions with different contextual socioeconomic characteristics. Specifically, the paper compares the demand for litigation as an important aspect of judicial performance in two different historical and cultural regions of Romania, which have been in the past under indirect Ottoman rule and part of the Habsburg Empire respectively. Although Romania is currently a centralized state with common judicial system, both parts of the country inherited substantially different legacies from the history. We find that while in rich regions Habsburg legacy leads to higher demand for litigation than the Ottoman, in poor regions the situation is reversed. The results remain robust for various specifications, controls and estimation techniques.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series ; No. 175

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Litigation Process
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Europe: 1913-
Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Political Economy; Property Rights
Thema
historical legacies
judicial performance
contextual factors
demand for litigation
Habsburg legacy
Ottoman legacy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Mendelski, Martin
Libman, Alexander
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2011

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Mendelski, Martin
  • Libman, Alexander
  • Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Entstanden

  • 2011

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