Articles

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The Paradox of Expected Punishment: Legal and Economic Factors Determining Success and Failure in the Fight against Organized Crime, Review of Law & Economics (2008)

The legal and economic analysis presented here empirically tests the theoretical framework advanced by Kugler,...

 

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Mecanismos de sostenibilidad de las reformas legales y judiciales en países en desarrollo: principios y lecciones aprendidas a través de la experiencia internacional, The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies (2006)

This article provides a survey of the best international practices based on the judicial reform...

 

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An empirical assessment of the impact of formal versus informal dispute resolution on poverty: A governance-based approach (with Paul Stephan), International Review of Law and Economics (2005)

Based on governance-related criteria, this article provides the empirical jurimetric verification of the how, where,...

 

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Intellectual Property Law: Theory vs. Implementation , Brown Journal of World Affairs (2005)

The paper provides a jurimetric identification of the legal and judicial factors explaining the best...

 

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Undermining the Foundations of Organized Crime and Public Sector Corruption , Essays in Public Policy (2005)

This paper provides a jurimetric account of the main political, social, criminal justice, and economic...

 

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Controlling Organized Crime and Corruption in the Public Sector , Forum on Crime and Society (2003)

Organized crime and corruption are shaped by the lack of strength of the control mechanisms...

 

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An analysis of judicial corruption and its causes: An objective governing-based approach, International Review of Law and Economics (2001)

For public policy design purposes, a scientific approach to the study of public sector corruption...

 

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The economic factors behind international legal harmonization: a jurimetric analysis of the Latin American experience, Emerging Markets Review (2001)

This paper shows that the international harmonization of commercial legal rules and commercial legal standards...

 

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An Analysis of the Causes of Corruption in the Judiciary (with Maria Dakolias), Law and Policy in International Business (1999)

This publication advances a public agency-specific framework for the analysis of the causes of public...

 

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A quantitative assessment of the efficiency of the judicial sector in Latin America (with Thomas Ullen), International Review of Law and Economics (1997)

There is a widespread belief throughout Latin America that the judicial sector is not in...

 

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Nafta Revisited: Expectations and Realities: Judicial Reform: The Neglected Priority in Latin America (with William Ratliff), The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science (1997)
 

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Corruption and Judicial Reform in Latin America, Policy Studies Journal (1997)
 

Books

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Law and Economics in Developing Countries (with William Ratliff) (2000)
 

Contributions to Books

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Law and Economics of Development, Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (2000)
 

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Working papers

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Judicial Corruption in Developing Countries: Its Causes and Economic Consequences , Berkeley Program in Law & Economics, Working Paper Series (1999)

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Presentations

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´El Chapo´ Guzmán en Forbes, El Universal (2009)

´El Chapo´ Guzmán se codea con millonarios La presión internacional obligaría a una investigación para...

 

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Infiltrados, la muerte de Mouriño, CNN en Español (2008)

Carmen Aristegui platica con Edgardo Buscaglia, investigador del Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) y...