Prabirjit Sarkar

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that common law systems were more protective of shareholders than civil law ones in the period 1995-2005, and that civilian systems were catching up, suggesting that civil law origin was not much of an obstacle to convergence.

TL;DR: In the last 40 years since the Prebisch-Singer terms of trade deterioration hypothesis was first proposed, the commodity composition of exports of developing countries has undergone a major change in the direction of dominance of manufactures in their nonfuel exports, with strong growth in the volume of their manufactured exports as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a panel data set covering a range of developed and developing countries, and found that common-law systems were more protective of shareholders than civil-law ones in the period 1995-2005.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that labour law is endogenous, with both the production and the application of labour law norms influenced by national and sectoral contexts, and by complementarities between the institutions of the labour market and those of corporate governance and financial markets.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between openness (tradeGDP ratio) and growth and found that for only 11 rich and highly trade-dependent countries, a higher real growth is associated with a higher trade share.