Measuring Law and Institutions
该研讨会报告讨论了世界银行治理指标和法律渊源对经济绩效的影响，指出需要更好的衡量工具，并应关注监管的收益而非仅成本。
The report on the workshop Measuring Law and Institutions highlights two topics. One is the World Bank governance indicators; improvements in governance significantly increase national income. The other is the importance of legal origins; different legal traditions are supposed to influence economic performance. Civil law tradition is closer to constructivist top-down regulation of society, whereas common law is closer to liberal order, based on independent individual decisions. The workshop concluded that better tools for measuring law and institutions are needed and that also the beneftis, not only the costs of regulations need to be taken into account.