This paper sets a new tone in the legal origins debate with the overwhelming dominance of French civil-law countries in … private investment: contrary to mainstream consensus where-in, English common-law countries are better at championing private … shape domestic, foreign, private and public investments through law channels of regulation quality and the rule of law. …

This paper cuts adrift the mainstream approach to the legal-origins debate on the law-growth nexus by integrating both … overall economic and human components in our understanding of how regulation quality and the rule of law lie at the heart of … growth and human development beyond the mechanisms of law channels. As a policy implication results support benefits of the …