Legal structure, globalization, domestic development, and political institutions.

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This dissertation investigates the determinants for scores in the EFW Area 2: legal structure and security of property rights. To fill out this gap of the existing literature on the determinants of the legal structure, I find that both the level and change in globalization and domestic development are positively associated with the level and change in the legal structure and security of property rights in the cross section and panel data analysis. Moreover, the level and change of political institutions exert a positive impact on the level and change of legal structure and security of property rights after controlling for globalization and domestic development. Furthermore, both the identity of the colonizer and the condition of the colony are one of the important determinants across colonies for legal structure and security of property rights. The post-independence states retain their colonial heritage, which affects the current legal structure and security of property rights.