Bei der wirtschaftlichen Reorganisation ehemals sozialistischer Staaten kann die wirtschaftspolitische Vergangenheit noch einen erheblichen Einfluß auf die aktuelle Reformpolitik haben. Der äußerst mühsame Prozeß der Preisliberalisierung in der Mongolei ist hierfür ein gutes Beispiel....

Estimates of the extent of corruption rely largely on self-reports of individuals, business managers, and government officials. Yet it is well known that survey respondents are reticent to tell the truth about activities to which social and legal stigma are attached, implying a downward bias in...

A potential concern with survey-based data on corruption is that respondents may not be fully candid in their responses to sensitive questions. If reticent respondents are less likely to admit to involvement in corrupt acts, and if the proportion of reticent respondents varies across groups of...

Random response questions have been used as a survey technique to elicit candid responses to sensitive questions for half a century, despite relatively little evidence as to their effectiveness in doing so. We reconsider surprising recent evidence that random response questions apparently were...

The history of England’s institutions has long informed research on comparative economic development. Yet to date there exists no quantitative evidence on a core aspect of England’s institutional evolution, that embodied in the accumulated decisions of English courts. Focusing on the two...

We provide a quantitative macrohistory of the evolution and coevolution of three fundamental elements of English caselaw: property, contract, and procedure. Our dataset is derived from a comprehensive corpus of reports on pre-1765 English court cases. Leveraging existing topic model estimates,...