Doing Business guidance, legal origins theory, and the politics of governance by knowledge

AbstractRecently some analysts have focused the attention on the country's legal origins in order to explain the country's economic performances. Better performances in the economic and justice system have often been correlated to the flexibility and smooth framework of the common law. It has been also emphasised that the common law, more oriented toward private economic activity and civil law with greater orientation toward government intervention, have influenced countries' respective markets and socio-regulation. Without judging the appropriateness of entire juridical systems, our approach will take into consideration the criteria of the analysis in order to make some reflections on what could be a balanced approach to make comparisons and to conduct analysis with a significant output. Nevertheless, the debate generated by studies based on legal origins analysis such as Doing Business, ZERP, and LLSV is an important stimulus because it is related to the capacity of social science to recalibrate its instruments in order to give more complete explanation of complex phenomena that are difficult to gauge in unilateral models.

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Taxonomies and Leximetrics

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743682.013.18 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Mathias M. Siems

Keyword(s):

Cluster Analysis ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Investor Protection ◽

Corporate Law ◽

Legal Origins ◽

Doing Business ◽

Legal Questions ◽

The World

This chapter focuses on taxonomies that are commonly applied to corporate law and governance. It begins with an overview of the main rationales for and types of such corporate taxonomies before turning to a discussion of four types of typologies: limited typologies dealing with either legal or non-legal questions, and general typologies having either a legal or a non-legal focus. It then outlines challenges to these taxonomies, with particular emphasis on the criticism against the quantitative research on “legal origins” and how “leximetrics” can be used to address the question of whether or not there are distinct legal families in corporate law. It also presents a cluster analysis of investor protection data of the World Bank’s Doing Business Report.

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The 'No-Nonsense' Guide to Doing Business in Japan

10.1057/9780333978085 ◽

2000 ◽

Author(s):

Jon Woronoff

Keyword(s):

Doing Business

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Ease of Doing Business and Its Impact on Inward FDI

Indonesian Journal of Management and Business Economics ◽

10.32455/ijmbe.v1i1.52 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 52 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mohamed Tareq Hossain ◽

Zubair Hassan ◽

Sumaiya Shafiq ◽

Abdul Basit

Keyword(s):

Regression Model ◽

Causal Relationship ◽

World Bank ◽

Least Square ◽

Doing Business ◽

Least Square Regression ◽

Foreign Countries ◽

Ease Of Doing Business ◽

The Impact ◽

Starting A Business

This study investigates the impact of Ease of Doing Business on Inward FDI over the period from 2011 to 2015 across the globe. This study measures ease of doing business using starting a business, getting credit, registering property, paying taxes and enforcing contracts. The research used a sample of 177 countries from 190 countries listed in World Bank. Least square regression model via E-views software used to examine causal relationship. The study found that ease of doing business indicators ‘Enforcing Contracts’ was found to have a positive significant impact on Inward FDI. Nevertheless, ‘Getting Credit’ and ‘Registering Property’ were found to have a negative significant impact on Inward FDI. However, ‘Starting a Business’ and ‘Paying Taxes’ have no significant impact on Inward FDI in the studied timeframe of this research. The findings of the study suggested the ease of doing business enables inward FDI through better contract enforcements, getting credit and registering property. The findings of the research will assist international managers and companies to know the importance of ease of doing business when investing in foreign countries through FDI.

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On the Origins of Administrative Rent: Doing Business in a Russian Region N

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2010-5-58-80 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 58-80 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. Oleinik

Keyword(s):

Rent Seeking ◽

Individual Decision ◽

Resource Rent ◽

Competitive Edge ◽

Doing Business ◽

Russian Region ◽

Positive Gain ◽

Access To The Field ◽

Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

In the article two types of rent are differentiated: resource rent and administrative rent. The latter is linked to restrictions on the access to the field of interactions. The contribution of the theory of public choice and the theory of rent-seeking and directly-unproductive activities is further developed by shifting the emphasis from individual decision-making to interactions between three actors: C, who controls access to the field, A, who gets a competitive edge as a result, and B, who assumes a subjacent position with regard to both A and C, yet still receives a positive gain from transacting. Domination by virtue of a constellation of As, Bs, and Cs interests is illustrated with the help of an in-depth case study of a Russian region. This study combines quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as their triangulation.

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What Kind of Firms Has Investment Programs in the Crisis Times and What Kind of Barriers Do They Face?

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2009-12-100-110 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 100-110 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. Yakovlev

Keyword(s):

Manufacturing Firms ◽

Point Of View ◽

Current Crisis ◽

Doing Business

The paper considers the behavior of Russian enterprises during the current crisis using the data of the latest survey of 1000 manufacturing firms. Special attention is paid to features of firms planning big investment for the next 12 months. The links between current investment plans, previous investment in 2005-2008 and other factors are shown. Finally we analyze the most important barriers for doing business from the point of view of investors.

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