Law & Development Blogtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-14292172008-09-03T18:00:31-04:00A Member of the Law Professor Blogs NetworkTypePad1202768http://www.feedburner.comSWF principles close at hand?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-550956622008-09-03T18:00:31-04:002008-09-03T18:00:31-04:00The Wall Street Journal reports here that the IMF is near agreement on investment principles for SWFs. I presume these will be so vague as to make little difference, but that may not be a bad thing. TGTom GinsburgDo World Bank and IMF Programs cause crises?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-549284782008-08-30T22:07:33-04:002008-08-30T22:07:42-04:00The conclusion of Axel Drefer and Martin Gassebner here is a qualified yes. We examine whether and under which circumstances World Bank projects and IMF programs affect the likelihood of major government crises. Using a sample of more than 90...Tom GinsburgDoes trade help growth? sometimes...tag:typepad.com,2003:post-547260542008-08-26T18:03:26-04:002008-08-26T18:03:40-04:00This new NBER paper, available here, seeks to answer the question in a particularly sophisticated way. The abstract is below. Thanks to Danny Sokol (Florida) for letting me know about it. Is the Washington Consensus Dead? Growth, Openness, and the...Tom GinsburgEducation and Inequalitytag:typepad.com,2003:post-545756182008-08-22T20:17:42-04:002008-08-22T20:17:57-04:00I just came across this fascinating paper from 2007 on The Inheritance of Educational Inequality, by six young economists and published in the BE Press Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy. The paper uses regression techniques to estimate 50-year trends...Tom GinsburgCan Survey Evidence Shed Light on FDI Spillovers?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-539594782008-08-09T03:54:28-04:002008-08-09T03:54:41-04:00A new piece by Beata Javorcik (Oxford) considers this question here. The Abstract follows: Although some economists remain skeptical of the existence of positive externalities associated with foreign direct investment (FDI), many countries spend large sums attracting foreign investors in...Tom GinsburgNew article by Arrunada and Andonovatag:typepad.com,2003:post-539114582008-08-07T22:38:13-04:002008-08-07T22:38:25-04:00"Common Law and Civil Law as Pro-Market Adaptations" is now available on SSRN here. Abstract: We argue that in the development of the Western legal system, cognitive departures are the main determinant of the optimal degree of judicial rule-making. Judicial...Tom GinsburgFundação Getúlio Vargas meeting on Institutions and Organizationstag:typepad.com,2003:post-534147662008-07-28T22:15:36-04:002008-07-28T22:15:52-04:00Thanks to Danny Sokol (Florida) for letting us know about the upcoming meeting at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil on “Institutions and Organizations. There is still the possibility to submit paper proposals. The meeting will be held in São...Tom GinsburgNew work on Asia by Berkowitz and Moeniustag:typepad.com,2003:post-531657802008-07-24T08:44:06-04:002008-07-24T08:44:31-04:00I am in Seoul, Korea, and am reminded that there has been relatively little attention paid in recent years to the classical questions of rapid growth in Asia, outside China. This paper by Berkowitz and Moenius, available at SSRN, looks...Tom GinsburgNew survey paper on finance and growthtag:typepad.com,2003:post-527224342008-07-15T09:59:07-04:002008-07-15T09:59:30-04:00Daniel Sokol at Florida has just brought this paper to my attention. Thanks! http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1143666 TGTom GinsburgOchoa on the Ruggie Reporttag:typepad.com,2003:post-526061082008-07-12T21:20:38-04:002008-07-12T21:20:46-04:00Christy Ochoa, of the University of Indiana at Bloomington, has a nice piece on the Ruggie report in the latest ASIL Insights, available here.Tom GinsburgResource curse in US statestag:typepad.com,2003:post-525827442008-07-12T09:02:27-04:002008-07-12T09:06:47-04:00Here is an interesting article I just came across. The cite is Comparative Politics 41: 477-514 (2008). Lessons from Strange Cases: Democracy, Development and the Resource Curse in U.S. States Ellis Goldberg, Erik Wibbels and Eric Mvukiyehe Abstract: The work...Tom GinsburgMongolia election violence-the resource curse strikes again?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-525514722008-07-11T12:23:15-04:002008-07-11T12:23:26-04:00Even the New York Times noticed the election violence in Mongolia, one of my favorite places and a country about which I wrote several articles in the 1990s. After the ruling MPRP won a majority of seats in the recent...Tom GinsburgWTO Public Forum Reporttag:typepad.com,2003:post-520197522008-06-29T01:45:55-04:002008-06-29T01:46:03-04:00WTO Public Forum 2007 Report "How Can the WTO Help Harness Globalization?" summarizes the views and issues expressed during last year's WTO Public Forum. Topics for debate included the challenges presented by globalisation, the need for a coherent multilateral trading...Tom Ginsburgupcoming book by Bhagwatitag:typepad.com,2003:post-518365482008-06-25T09:09:10-04:002008-06-25T09:09:18-04:00Jagdish Bhagwati's Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade (Oxford UP) will be released next month. Excerpt from the blurb: Writing with his customary wit, panache, and elegance, Bhagwati documents the growth of these PTAs, the...Tom GinsburgArrunada on Doing Business, reduxtag:typepad.com,2003:post-515203662008-06-18T12:40:48-04:002008-06-18T12:41:13-04:00Benito Arrunada has a new working paper here on the Doing Business project, continuing his argument that it has distorted policy priorities in the business start-up area. The internal World Bank report, though critical of some aspects of Doing Business,...Tom Ginsburg