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1. 日時：2014年7月22日 （火）15:00~16:30
2. 場所：高知大学 朝倉キャンパス 人文学部棟5階 第1会議室
3. 講演者：Prof. J. Mark Ramseyer （
http://www.law.harvard.edu/
4. タイトル："Social Capital and the Formal Legal System:
Evidence fromPrefecture-Level Data in Japan".
5. 論文要旨：Verifiable proxies for social capital potentially
provide anempirically tractable way to identify environments
where social norms both constrain behavior and substitute for
judicial enforcement. Using regression and factor analysis
with Japanese prefecture-level data, I explore several aspects
of this possibility. First, I find that people in prefectures
with high levels of social capital more readily comply with a
wide range of low-level legal mandates. Second, reflecting
the fact that social norms need not point toward government-
approved ends, taxpayers in high social-capital prefectures
(particularly in the agricultural sector) are more -- not less
-- likely to evade taxes.
Third, conditional on levels of economic welfare, I find
that: (a) firms in prefectures with low levels of social capital
are more likely to default on their contracts; (b) residents in
low social-capital prefectures are more likely to litigate;
(c) creditors of distressed debtors in low social-capital
prefectures are more likely to petition a court for enforcement
orders, and (d) distressed debtors in low social-capital
prefectures are more likely to file in court for bankruptcy protection.
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