Felli, Leonardo, Anderlini, Luca, Immordino, Giovanni and Riboni, Alessandro (2010) Legal institutions, innovation and growth. CESF working papers (256). University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
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We build a stylized model of endogenous technological change and analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. Two legal systems are analyzed: a rigid system, where an uncontingent law is written ex ante (before knowing the current technology) and a flexible system where law-makers select the law ex post (after observing the current technology). We show that flexible legal systems dominate in terms of welfare, amount of innovation and output growth in economies at intermediate stages of technological development -- which are periods when legal change is more needed -- while rigid legal systems are preferable at early stages of technological development, when commitment problems are more severe. For mature technologies the two legal systems are shown to be equivalent. Surprisingly, we find that rigid legal systems may induce excessive (greater than first-best) R&D investment and output growth.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.csef.it/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 CESF |
| Divisions: | Economics STICERD Financial Markets Group |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| JEL classification: | E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E6 - Macroeconomic Policy Formation, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, Macroeconomic Policy, and General Outlook > E61 - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination L - Industrial Organization > L5 - Regulation and Industrial Policy > L51 - Economics of Regulation O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development > O30 - General |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2011 14:18 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 20:16 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/35481 |
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