Carmine Guerriero

Carmine Guerriero^[1] (Avellino, 6 June 1979) is an Italian economist whose main contributions are towards the understanding of the determinants of legal, regulatory, and political institutions (endogenous institutions theory).

Education and professional life

Born in Avellino, Italy, Guerriero obtained his BA in economics from Bocconi University in 2002, his MA in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2004, his MSc in Economics from LSE in 2005, and his PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge in 2010.

From 2009 to 2015 he has been Assistant Professor and Fellow of law and economics at the ACLE^[2] (University of Amsterdam) and is now Assistant Professor of Economics (RTDb) at the University of Bologna. Between 2009 and 2017, he has visited Bocconi, EIEF, LUISS, and Collegio Carlo Alberto.

Guerriero is associate editor of the International Review of Law and Economics (from 2012 on) and Co-Primary Investigator of the Nomography Project (from 2014 on). Furthermore, he has received the EARIE Paul Geroski award in 2007 and the Hans-Jurgen-Ewer prize in 2011

He has published in renowned journals as the Journal of Comparative Economics and the Journal of Law and Economics, and he is most known for his work on:

• endogenous legal traditions (a criticism to the legal origins literature based on the fact that legal systems evolve due to forces also affecting the economic outcomes that economists want to explain through legal variation and suggesting that the reforms supported by the World Bank and based on the legal origins literature might have detrimental effects);^[3][4]
• property rights;^[5]
• market design;^[6]
• the determinants and effects of a culture of cooperation and inclusive political institutions.^[7]
• extractive policies with a special focus to the unitary origins of the present-day North-South of Italy divide.^[8]

Selected publications

• "Accountability in Government and Regulatory Policies: Theory and Evidence.'' Journal of Comparative Economics, 39 (2011): 453-469.
• "Endogenous Legal Traditions.'' International Review of Law and Economics, 46 (2016): 49-69.
• "Endogenous Legal Traditions and Economic Outcomes.'' Journal of Comparative Economics, 44 (2016): 416-433.
• "Endogenous Property Rights.'' Journal of Law and Economics, 59 (2016): 313-358.
• "Endogenous (In)Formal Institutions'' (with: Serra Boranbay, Carnegie Mellon University). ACLE Working Paper No. 2012-04.

References

1. ↑ "University of Bologna Website". 
2. ↑ "ACLE Website". 
3. ↑ Guerriero, Carmine. "Agreeing on what really matters: The slow evolution of legal institutions toward efficiency". http://voxeu.org.  External link in |website= (help)
4. ↑ Guerriero, Carmine. "Endogenous Legal Traditions and Economic Outcomes". https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu.  External link in |website= (help)
5. ↑ Guerriero, Carmine. "When Are Weak Property Rights Optimal?". https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu.  External link in |website= (help)
6. ↑ Guerriero, Carmine. "When is regulation more efficient than competition?". http://voxeu.org.  External link in |website= (help)
7. ↑ Casson, Catherine, Mark Casson. "Medieval History and its Relevance to Modern Business". https://ehsthelongrun.net/.  External link in |website= (help)
8. ↑ Guerriero, Carmine. "Extractive Policies and Economic Outcomes: the Unitary Origins of the Present-Day North-South of Italy Divide". https://ehsthelongrun.net/.  External link in |website= (help)