Do enforcement institutions matter for economic specialization? : province-level evidence from Spain

Mora-Sanguinetti, Juan S. (avtor), Spruk, Rok (avtor)

We test whether enforcement institutions shape regional specialization. Using administrative data for all Spanish provinces (NUTS-3) over 1999–2014 with juris- diction-specific extensions, we measure judicial efficacy by court congestion in administrative and civil courts and identify its causal effect with historical, region- level instruments: foral civil-law stocks and special administrative tax regimes. We find that weaker enforcement shifts specialization away from manufacturing and toward services. In administrative-court specifications, a one standard-deviation increase in congestion rate lowers the manufacturing share by about 12–19% and raisesthe services share by 13–27%. Civil-court effects are smaller but of the same sign. Results are robust to redefining outcomes as complex vs. non-complex activi- ties, aggregating outcomes to NUTS-2, alternative Bartik instrument structures, and identification-robust inference checks. The evidence implies that strengthening judicial enforcement, especially in the administrative jurisdiction, tilts economies toward contract-intensive production and slows premature deindustrialization.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: EF - Ekonomska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2026
• Št. strani: 37 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. 75, article no. ǂ50
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-182128
• UDK: 332.1
• ISSN pri članku: 0570-1864
• DOI: 10.1007/s00168-026-01479-6
• COBISS.SI-ID: 273674243
• Datum objave v RUL: 24.04.2026

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: The annals of regional science
• Skrajšan naslov: Ann. reg. sci.
• Založnik: Springer
• ISSN: 0570-1864
• COBISS.SI-ID: 27203840

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: Španija, regionalna politika, regionalna ekonomika, regionalni razvoj