The World Bank is discontinuing the Doing Business indicators because of irregularities in the application of its methodology. However, it is the flaws in that methodology and its sports-league marketing that have caused most damage, distorting policy priorities and favoring cosmetic reforms.
Remarks at the Panel from the “New Enlightenment Conference: Reshaping Capitalism and the Global Order in a Neo-Mercantilist World,” Session…
The law-and-economics of property throws doubts on the prospects of blockchain for transacting durable high-value assets. You are free to…
In this paper, published at the Journal of Institutional Economics (2017), I trace the disconnection between economic analysis and property…
During the economic crisis in countries that had experienced housing bubbles, from the US to Spain, thousands of homeowners faced…
To what extent did Ancient Roman institutions facilitate the free exchange of economic resources? In “The Institutions of Roman Markets,” I…
Published in El País, “Más o menos Estado”, March 12, 2015, pp. 31-32. The greater the scope for decision-making by politicians and civil…
Published as “The Convergence between Technocracy and Populism” in El País, August 14, p. 23. Citizens should know the real costs of their…
Published in El País with the title “La culpa es nuestra“, 13 April 2014, p. 31 It is not only elites who are “extractive”; citizens, the…
Interview by Abel Hernández, published at Sintetia on September 24 (first part) and 26 (second part), 2012 Benito Arruñada is Professor of…
Arruñada, Benito (2008), “Will Doing Business Keep Damaging Business?,” Journal of Comparative Economics, in press. Accepted manuscript…
Over recent years, both governments and international aid organizations have been devoting large amounts of resources to “simplifying” the…
