TY - JOUR
T1 - Judicial quality, contract intensity and trade
T2 - Firm-level evidence from developing and transition countries
AU - Ma, Yue
AU - Qu, Baozhi
AU - Zhang, Yifan
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - 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. © 2009.
AB - 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. © 2009.
KW - Contract intensity
KW - Institutions
KW - International trade
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jce.2009.09.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jce.2009.09.002
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
SN - 0147-5967
VL - 38
SP - 146
EP - 159
JO - Journal of Comparative Economics
JF - Journal of Comparative Economics
IS - 2
ER -