Jerg Gutmann

University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics

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Believe, But Verify? - The Effect of Market Structure on Corruption In Religious Organizations

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Believe, But Verify? - The Effect of Market Structure on Corruption In Religious Organizations

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2016
Jerg Gutmann
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics
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Determinants of Corruption, Religious Market, Regulation, State Religion

Believe, But Verify? The Effect of Market Structure on Corruption in Religious Organizations

Kyklos, Vol. 68, Issue 2, pp. 153-164, 2015
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 07 Apr 2015
Jerg Gutmann
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics
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Economic Growth and Judicial Independence, a Dozen Years On: Cross-Country Evidence Using an Updated Set of Indicators

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Economic Growth and Judicial Independence, a Dozen Years On: Cross-Country Evidence Using an Updated Set of Indicators

European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 38, 2015
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2016
Stefan Voigt, Jerg Gutmann and Lars P. Feld
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics, University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and Walter Eucken Institute
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Judicial Independence, Economic Growth, Rule of Law, Constitutional Economics, Governance, Measuring Institutions

Economic Growth and Judicial Independence, a Dozen Years on: Cross-Country Evidence Using an Updated Set of Indicators

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5010
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Oct 2014
Stefan Voigt, Jerg Gutmann and Lars P. Feld
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics, University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and Walter Eucken Institute
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judicial independence, economic growth, rule of law, constitutional economics, governance, measuring institutions

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On the Wrong Side of the Law - Causes and Consequences of a Corrupt Judiciary

International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 43, 2015
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2016
Stefan Voigt and Jerg Gutmann
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics
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Corruption, Judiciary, Judicial Independence, Prosecutorial Independence, Judicial Accountability

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The Rule of Law and Constitutionalism in Muslim Countries

Public Choice, Vol. 162, No. 3-4, 2015
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 May 2014 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2016
Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
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Islam, Islamic State Index, Sharia, Rule of Law, Constitutionalism, Endogenous Constitutions, Muslim Countries, Judicial Independence, Women’s Rights, Resource Curse

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Lending a Hand to the Invisible Hand? Assessing the Effects of Newly Enacted Competition Laws

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Feb 2014
Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
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Competition Law, Competition Policy, Economic Growth, Law and Economic Development, Corruption

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Turning Cheap Talk into Economic Growth: On the Relationship Between Property Rights and Judicial Independence

Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2013
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2013
Stefan Voigt and Jerg Gutmann
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics
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Property Rights, Credible Commitment, Independent Judiciary, Unbundling Property Rights, Transmission Channels, Constitutional Economics

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The Rule of Law: Measurement and Deep Roots

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The Rule of Law: Measurement and Deep Roots

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Nov 2015
Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
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Rule of Law, Democracy, Dictatorship, Economic Development, Geography, Institutions

The Rule of Law: Measurement and Deep Roots

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5670
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 28 Jan 2016
Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
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rule of law, democracy, dictatorship, economic development, geography, institutions

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Determinants of Constitutionally Safeguarded Judicial Review – Insights Based on a New Indicator

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Oct 2011
Jerg Gutmann, Bernd Hayo and Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics, University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
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Constitutional Review, Judicial Independence, Constitutional Choice, Constitutional Change

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Perception vs. Experience: Explaining Differences in Corruption Measures Using Microdata

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 Sep 2015
Jerg Gutmann, Fabio Padovano and Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics, Université de Rennes 1 and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
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Corruption, Corruption Experience, Corruption Measurement, Corruption Perception, Governance, Governance Indicators, Institutional Quality, Quality of Government, Subjective Indicators, Microdata Analysis

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The Rule of Law and Islam

Edward Elgar Handbook on the Rule of Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Mar 2017
Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
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Rule of Law, Islam, Shari’a, Constitutionalism, Muslim Countries

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Pulling Leviathan's Teeth – The Political Economy of Death Penalty Abolition

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 20 Jan 2016
Jerg Gutmann
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics
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capital punishment, death penalty abolition, political economy, positive constitutional economics, spatial policy diffusion, survival analysis

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Let the Sunshine in: Why Countries Adopt Freedom of Information Acts

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 Mar 2014
Patrick Brown, Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
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Freedom of Information Acts, FOIA, Endogenous Constitutions, Governance, Transparency, Policy Diffusion

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Why Adopt a Federal Constitution? And Why Decentralize? – Determinants Based on a New Dataset

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 May 2017 Last Revised: 14 May 2017
Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
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Federalism, Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization, Geography, Institutions, Endogenous Constitutions

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Judicial Independence in the EU – A Puzzle

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan (2017): Judicial Independence in the EU – A Puzzle, ILE Working Paper Series, No. 4
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 May 2017
Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
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judicial independence, EU Justice Scoreboard, informal institutions, culture

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Precision-Guided or Blunt? The Effects of US Economic Sanctions on Human Rights

Universitat Trier, Research Papers in Economics, No. 9/16
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 07 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2017
Jerg Gutmann, Matthias Neuenkirch and Florian Neumeier
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics, University of Trier - Faculty of Economics and CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute
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Democratization, Discrimination, Economic Sanctions, Endogenous Treatment Model, Human Rights, Repression, United States

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Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and Its Gender Gap

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2018
Jerg Gutmann, Matthias Neuenkirch and Florian Neumeier
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics, University of Trier - Faculty of Economics and CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute
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Gender Gap, Human Development, Life Expectancy, Sanctions, United Nations, United States

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Economic Sanctions and Human Rights: Quantifying the Legal Proportionality Principle

Universität Trier Research Papers in Economics No. 2/18
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 22 May 2018
Jerg Gutmann, Matthias Neuenkirch, Florian Neumeier and Armin Steinbach
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics, University of Trier - Faculty of Economics, CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute and Oxford University - Nuffield College
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Domestic Institutions and the Ratification of International Agreements in a Panel of Democracies

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 Nov 2015
Florian Kiesow Cortez and Jerg Gutmann
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics
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Political Economy, Constitutional Economics, International Agreements, Electoral Systems, Power-Sharing Institutions, Judicial Independence

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Militant Constitutionalism – A Promising Concept to Make Constitutional Backsliding Less Likely?

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan (2019) : Militant Constitutionalism – A Promising Concept to Make Constitutional Backsliding less likely?, ILE Working Paper Series, No. 25, University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics (ILE), Hamburg, 2019
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Jun 2019
Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
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constitutional compliance, militant democracy, militant constitutionalism, de jure de facto gap, democratic backsliding

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When to Expect a Coup D'État? An Extreme Bound Analysis of Coup Determinants

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6065
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Oct 2016
Martin Gassebner, Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt
ETH Zurich - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
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coups d’état, military coups, coup-proofing, extreme bounds analysis

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Natural Disasters on Human Rights

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 Oct 2017
Jerg Gutmann and Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics
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Natural Disasters, Human Rights, Institutional Change, Repression

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Islamic Constitutions and Religious Minorities

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Dec 2018
Moamen Gouda and Jerg Gutmann
Graduate School of International and Area Studies (GSIAS), Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics
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minority rights, discrimination, constitutions, Islam, Islamic constitutionalism

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Coups, Regime Transition, and the Dynamics of Press Freedom

CESifo Working Paper No. 7198
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 31 Oct 2018
Christian Bjørnskov, Andreas Freytag and Jerg Gutmann
Aarhus University - Department of Economics and Business, University of Jena - Department of Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics
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coup, political instability, press freedom

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Securing Personal Freedom Through Institutions – The Role of Electoral Democracy and Judicial Independence

IFN Working Paper No. 1269
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 02 May 2019
Niclas Berggren and Jerg Gutmann
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics
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freedom, democracy, judicial independence, political economy, institutions

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Banking Crises and Human Rights

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2016
Jerg Gutmann, Katharina Pfaff and Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics, WU Vienna - Institute for Sociology and Empirical Social Research and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics

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Human Rights, Banking Crises, Endogenous Treatment Model

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Private-Sector Corruption: Measurement and Cultural Origins

Posted: 04 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2016
Viola Lucas and Jerg Gutmann
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics

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Corruption Indicators, Determinants of Corruption, Private-sector Corruption, Culture, Individualism

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The Economics of Green Constitutions

Posted: 18 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2016
Jerg Gutmann, Sina Imhof and Stefan Voigt
University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law & Economics

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Environmental Protection, Endogenous Constitutional Rights, Democracy, Future Orientation, Long-term Orientation