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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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series ; No. 175
- Classification
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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
- Subject
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historical legacies
judicial performance
contextual factors
demand for litigation
Habsburg legacy
Ottoman legacy
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Mendelski, Martin
Libman, Alexander
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Veröffentlichung
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Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
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Frankfurt a. M.
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2011
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Mendelski, Martin
- Libman, Alexander
- Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Time of origin
- 2011
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