Title
Judicial quality, contract intensity and trade : firm-level evidence from developing and transition countries
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Journal of Comparative Economics
Publication Date
6-1-2010
Volume
38
Issue
2
First Page
146
Last Page
159
Publisher
Academic Press
Keywords
Contract intensity, Institutions, International trade
Abstract
Using firm-level data from 28 developing and transition countries, we investigate how judicial quality affects firm exports through relationship-specific investment. We find that a good legal system significantly increases exports among firms that use more customized goods as intermediate inputs. We control for potential reverse causality using propensity score matching. Our main results are robust to the use of different econometric methods.
DOI
10.1016/j.jce.2009.09.002
Print ISSN
01475967
E-ISSN
10957227
Publisher Statement
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Full-text Version
Publisher’s Version
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Ma, Y., Qu, B., & Zhang, Y. (2010). Judicial quality, contract intensity and trade: Firm-level evidence from developing and transition countries. Journal of Comparative Economics, 38(2), 146-159. doi: 10.1016/j.jce.2009.09.002
