Anderlini, Luca, Felli, Leonardo, Immordino, Giovanni and Riboni, Alessandro (2013) Legal institutions, innovation, and growth. International Economic Review, 54 (3). pp. 937-956. ISSN 0020-6598
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We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation, and growth. We compare a rigid legal system (the law is set before the technological innovation) and a flexible one (the law is set after observing the new technology). The flexible system dominates in terms of welfare, amount of innovation, and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development-periods when legal change is needed. The rigid system is preferable at early stages of technological development, when commitment problems are severe. For mature technologies, the two legal systems are equivalent. We find that rigid legal systems may induce excessive R&D investment
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28... |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 The Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association |
| Divisions: | Economics STICERD Financial Markets Group |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions K Law > K Law (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2013 11:58 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 21:12 |
| Funders: | Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la societé et la culture |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/51354 |
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