Peter Murrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 983656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Murrell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Murrell |
| SIGNATURE | MURRELL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8816-7520 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 250 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture
The Formation and Resilience of Law-Abiding Attitudes under Authoritarianism: The Case of Russia
Authoritarian leaders frequently send mixed messages about law. While official rhetoric typically emphasizes obeying law, leaders have proven willing to sidestep the law when it proves inconvenient. We explore the impact of this duality on the attitudes of Russian citizens, drawing on three rounds of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. To identify the separate effects of cohort, age, and survey year, we use existing estimates of a functio…
A macroscope of English print culture, 1530–1700, applied to the coevolution of ideas on religion, science, and institutions
We combine unsupervised machine learning and econometric methods to study England’s print culture in the pivotal sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Machine learning synthesizes the content of 57,863 texts comprising 83 million words into 110 topics. Topics include the expected, such as Natural Philosophy, and the unexpected, such as Baconian Theology. Timelines suggest that religious and political discourse gradually became less antagonistic an…
Quiet revolutions in early-modern England
A macrohistory of legal evolution and coevolution: Property, procedure, and contract in early-modern English caselaw
Of families and inheritance: Law and development in England before the Industrial Revolution
Using Topic-Modeling in Legal History, with an Application to Pre-Industrial English Case Law on Finance
We argue that topic-modeling, an unsupervised machine-learning technique for analysis of large corpora, can be a powerful tool for legal-historical research. We provide a non-technical introduction to topic-modeling driven by the presentation of an example of how researchers can use the data that topic-modeling produces. The context of the example is pre-industrial English caselaw on finance. We generate new insights on the timing of pertinent le…
Characterizing a legal–intellectual culture: Bacon, Coke, and seventeenth-century England
Memories of colonial law: The inheritance of human capital and the location of joint ventures in early-reform China
Misunderestimating Corruption
Estimates of the extent of corruption rely largely on self-reports of individuals, business managers, and government officials. Yet it is well known that survey respondents are reticent to tell the truth about activities to which social and legal stigma are attached, implying a downward bias in survey-based estimates of corruption. This paper develops a method to estimate the prevalence of reticent behavior, in order to isolate rates of corruptio…
Misunderestimating Corruption
Corruption estimates rely largely on self-reports of affected individuals and officials. Yet survey respondents are often reticent to tell the truth about sensitive subjects, leading to downward biases in surveybased corruption estimates. This paper develops a method to estimate the prevalence of reticent behavior and reticence-adjusted rates of corruption using survey responses to sensitive questions. A statistical model captures how respondents…
Memories of Colonial Law: The Inheritance of Human Capital and the Location of Joint Ventures in Early-Reform China
Revisiting the emergence of the rule of law in Russia
In an extended comment on work by this paper’s authors, Gustafsson in a previous issue of this journal reaches scathing judgements on Russia’s arbitrazh (or commercial) courts and draws strong conclusions about the prospects for the rule of law in Russia. He concludes that litigants use the courts because they can bribe the judges. His paper revives old tales about the 1990s that we showed previously were myths. We examine Gustafsson’s argument b…
Misunderestimating Corruption
Estimates of the extent of corruption rely largely on self-reports of individuals, business managers, and government officials. Yet it is well known that survey respondents are reticent to tell the truth about activities to which social and legal stigma are attached, implying a downward bias in survey-based estimates of corruption. This paper develops a method to estimate the prevalence of reticent behavior, in order to isolate rates of corruptio…
Spatial spillovers in the development of institutions
Does respondent reticence affect the results of corruption surveys ? evidence from the world bank enterprise survey for Nigeria
A companion volume to the International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption published in 2006, the specially commissioned papers in Volume Two present some of the best policy-oriented research in the field. They stress the institutional roots of corruption and include new research on topics ranging from corruption in regulation and procurement to vote buying and private firm payoffs.
Identifying Reticent Respondents: Assessing the Quality of Survey Data on Corruption and Values
We implement a methodology that identifies respondents who are reticent in answering sensitive questions on surveys. The methodology entails asking a series of randomized response questions and identifies the reticent as those who give a set of answers that can arise only with an implausibly low probability. In a sample of Romanian company officials, we identify a specific 10% of respondents as reticent. The identifiably reticent admit to corrupt…
Lawyers and politicians: The impact of organized legal professions on institutional reforms
Enterprise Restructuring in Transition: A Quantitative Survey
We survey the empirical literature analysing the process of enterprise restructuring in transition economies. The survey provides new insights into the relative effectiveness of different reform policies, and into how this effectiveness varies across regions. We study the effects of privatization, the importance of different types of owners, the effects of foreign and domestic competition, the consequences of soft budgets, and the role of manager…
Agents of Change or Unchanging Agents? The Role of Lawyers within Russian Industrial Enterprises
The transition from state socialism toward market capitalism has led to an almost endless supply of new laws and legal institutions. Industrial enterprises need to adapt to this new institutional regime. In-house lawyers are well placed to be agents of change in facilitating this adjustment. Using survey data from 328 Russian enterprises, the article examines the role of company lawyers, asking whether they have fulfilled this potential. Legal ex…
Development of Practice and Teacher Preparation in the Age of Education Reform
Law, Relationships and Private Enforcement: Transactional Strategies of Russian Enterprises
Bank, and of the U.S. Agency for International Development under Cooperative Agreement No. DHR-0015-A-00-0031-00 to the Center on Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS). The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. Law, Relationships, and Private Enforcem…
Community Teachers: A Conceptual Framework for Preparing Exemplary Urban Teachers
Peter C. Murrell, Jr., Community Teachers: A Conceptual Framework for Preparing Exemplary Urban Teachers, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 69, No. 4, The School Reform Movement and the Education of African American Youth: A Retrospective Update (Autumn, 2000), pp. 338-348
Chartering the Village: The Making of an African-Centered Charter School
This article is the preliminary descriptive report of a 5-year qualitative research study—an ethnography of an independent African-centered charter school. The purpose of the study is to determine the pedagogical theory undergirding successful development and maintenance of an African-centered charter school. This article analyzes the resilience of attempts to develop an African-centered pedagogy in an independent public school. The analysis is b…
Do Repeat Players Behave Differently in Russia? Contractual and Litigation Behavior of Russian Enterprises
We examine whether Galanter's repeat player (RP) concept helps in deciphering the law-related behavior of Russian enterprises. We adapt the RP concept to the Russian context defining the Russian repeat player (RRP). Using data from 328 enterprises, we examine whether RRP-ness explains the use of protokols of disagreement, petitioning to freeze assets, contractual prepayment, and litigation activity. RRPs are very different from Galanter's RPs, ge…
What is Shock Therapy? What Did it Do in Poland and Russia
A prominent theorist of Soviet and East European economics critiques the vision of political and economic processes implicit in shock therapy, defending an alternative, evolutionary approach. The critique of shock therapy rests on both theoretical reasoning and examination of evidence from recent cases. An intensive study of economic change in Poland and Russia since the late-1980s concludes that, in both countries, shock therapy failed in its go…
Interest groups and the size of government
Observations on the Use of Law by Russian Enterprises
Four specialists on the Russian economy analyze the extent to which enterprises use law and legal institutions in structuring exchange relations. The analysis uses the responses from questionnaires administered to sixty officials of fifteen enterprises in Moscow and Yekaterinburg during May-June 1996, supplemented by interviews in enterprises and within arbitrazh courts. Their results indicate that enterprises make little use of law and consider …
An examination of the factors affecting the formation of interest groups in OECD countries
Law, Relationships and Private Enforcement: Transactional Strategies of Russian Enterprises
Bank, and of the U.S. Agency for International Development under Cooperative Agreement No. DHR-0015-A-00-0031-00 to the Center on Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS). The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. Law, Relationships, and Private Enforcem…
Do Repeat Players Behave Differently in Russia? Contractual and Litigation Behavior of Russian Enterprises
We examine whether Galanter's repeat player (RP) concept helps in deciphering the law-related behavior of Russian enterprises. We adapt the RP concept to the Russian context defining the Russian repeat player (RRP). Using data from 328 enterprises, we examine whether RRP-ness explains the use of protokols of disagreement, petitioning to freeze assets, contractual prepayment, and litigation activity. RRPs are very different from Galanter's RPs, ge…
How Far Has the Transition Progressed
As the opening contribution to a four-page symposium, this paper provides an overview of the economic transformation in reforming countries of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, describing reforms, their consequences, and lessons economists might derive from transition. The topics covered are political developments, liberalization, institutional reconstruction, reforms of systems for social protection, and the early results of transition…
Did the theory of market socialism answer the challenge of Ludwig von Mises? A reinterpretation of the socialist controversy
Research Article| March 01 1983 Did the theory of market socialism answer the challenge of Ludwig von Mises? A reinterpretation of the socialist controversy Peter Murrell Peter Murrell 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (1): 92–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-15-1-92 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share …
Conservative Political Philosophy and the Strategy of Economic Transition
Can Neoclassical Economics Underpin the Reform of Centrally Planned Economies
This paper addresses whether neoclassical economics can provide the intellectual underpinning for a theory of reform. I examine whether the neoclassical model satisfies an essential condition to qualify for this role: does it give us a satisfactory explanation for the vast differences in performance between capitalist and socialist economic systems? First, I focus on the theoretical arguments that have traditionally been used to examine the compa…
End of the Tunnel? The Effects of Financial Stabilization in Russia
Community Teachers: A Conceptual Framework for Preparing Exemplary Urban Teachers
Peter C. Murrell, Jr., Community Teachers: A Conceptual Framework for Preparing Exemplary Urban Teachers, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 69, No. 4, The School Reform Movement and the Education of African American Youth: A Retrospective Update (Autumn, 2000), pp. 338-348
Agents of Change or Unchanging Agents? The Role of Lawyers within Russian Industrial Enterprises
The transition from state socialism toward market capitalism has led to an almost endless supply of new laws and legal institutions. Industrial enterprises need to adapt to this new institutional regime. In-house lawyers are well placed to be agents of change in facilitating this adjustment. Using survey data from 328 Russian enterprises, the article examines the role of company lawyers, asking whether they have fulfilled this potential. Legal ex…
In Search of Responsive Teaching for African American Males: An Investigation of Students' Experiences of Middle School Mathematics Curriculum
Peter C. Murrell, Jr., In Search of Responsive Teaching for African American Males: An Investigation of Students' Experiences of Middle School Mathematics Curriculum, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 63, No. 4, Pedagogical and Contextual Issues Affecting African American Males in School and Society (Autumn, 1994), pp. 556-569
Identifying Reticent Respondents: Assessing the Quality of Survey Data on Corruption and Values
We implement a methodology that identifies respondents who are reticent in answering sensitive questions on surveys. The methodology entails asking a series of randomized response questions and identifies the reticent as those who give a set of answers that can arise only with an implausibly low probability. In a sample of Romanian company officials, we identify a specific 10% of respondents as reticent. The identifiably reticent admit to corrupt…
Chartering the Village: The Making of an African-Centered Charter School
This article is the preliminary descriptive report of a 5-year qualitative research study—an ethnography of an independent African-centered charter school. The purpose of the study is to determine the pedagogical theory undergirding successful development and maintenance of an African-centered charter school. This article analyzes the resilience of attempts to develop an African-centered pedagogy in an independent public school. The analysis is b…
Industry characteristics and interest group formation: An empirical study
A macroscope of English print culture, 1530–1700, applied to the coevolution of ideas on religion, science, and institutions
We combine unsupervised machine learning and econometric methods to study England’s print culture in the pivotal sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Machine learning synthesizes the content of 57,863 texts comprising 83 million words into 110 topics. Topics include the expected, such as Natural Philosophy, and the unexpected, such as Baconian Theology. Timelines suggest that religious and political discourse gradually became less antagonistic an…
Using Topic-Modeling in Legal History, with an Application to Pre-Industrial English Case Law on Finance
We argue that topic-modeling, an unsupervised machine-learning technique for analysis of large corpora, can be a powerful tool for legal-historical research. We provide a non-technical introduction to topic-modeling driven by the presentation of an example of how researchers can use the data that topic-modeling produces. The context of the example is pre-industrial English caselaw on finance. We generate new insights on the timing of pertinent le…
Spatial spillovers in the development of institutions
From status to contract? A macrohistory from early-modern English caselaw and print culture
Quiet revolutions in early-modern England
Comparative growth and comparative advantage: Tests of the effects of interest group behavior on foreign trade patterns
Did the theory of market socialism answer the challenge of Ludwig von Mises? A reinterpretation of the socialist controversy
Research Article| March 01 1983 Did the theory of market socialism answer the challenge of Ludwig von Mises? A reinterpretation of the socialist controversy Peter Murrell Peter Murrell 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (1): 92–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-15-1-92 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share …
An examination of the factors affecting the formation of interest groups in OECD countries
A note on variables and observations in factor analysis
Interest groups and the size of government
The Nature of Socialist Economics: Lessons from Eastern European Foreign Trade
What are the sources of the well-known differences in the performance of capitalist and socialist economic systems? Peter Murrell argues that the Schumpeterian model has far more power to answer this question than does the neoclassical theory generally used for that purpose. The neoclassical theory focuses on the absence of a price system and the inability of a centralized system to allocate resources efficiently, while the Schumpeterian model em…
Public choice and the transformation of socialism
Symposium on Economic Transition in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
This symposium examines the economic problems facing the reforming countries of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the interrelationships between these problems, and current knowledge on how to deal with them. The word “reform” is surely a misnomer for what is occurring; “revolution” is more fitting
Conservative Political Philosophy and the Strategy of Economic Transition
Industry characteristics and interest group formation: An empirical study
The Nature of Socialist Economies: Lessons from Eastern European Foreign Trade
Journal Article The Nature of Socialist Economies: Lessons from Eastern European Foreign Trade Get access The Nature of Socialist Economies: Lessons from Eastern European Foreign Trade. By PETER MURRELL. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. xiii + 275. US$26.00 hardback. ISBN 0691 04246 2). Paul G. Hare Paul G. Hare Heriotâ Watt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Econom…
Can Neoclassical Economics Underpin the Reform of Centrally Planned Economies
This paper addresses whether neoclassical economics can provide the intellectual underpinning for a theory of reform. I examine whether the neoclassical model satisfies an essential condition to qualify for this role: does it give us a satisfactory explanation for the vast differences in performance between capitalist and socialist economic systems? First, I focus on the theoretical arguments that have traditionally been used to examine the compa…
What is Shock Therapy? What Did it Do in Poland and Russia
A prominent theorist of Soviet and East European economics critiques the vision of political and economic processes implicit in shock therapy, defending an alternative, evolutionary approach. The critique of shock therapy rests on both theoretical reasoning and examination of evidence from recent cases. An intensive study of economic change in Poland and Russia since the late-1980s concludes that, in both countries, shock therapy failed in its go…
Playing Political Economy: The Goals and Outcomes of Russia’s Economic Reforms of 1992
In Search of Responsive Teaching for African American Males: An Investigation of Students' Experiences of Middle School Mathematics Curriculum
Peter C. Murrell, Jr., In Search of Responsive Teaching for African American Males: An Investigation of Students' Experiences of Middle School Mathematics Curriculum, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 63, No. 4, Pedagogical and Contextual Issues Affecting African American Males in School and Society (Autumn, 1994), pp. 556-569
Politics and Economics of Mongolia's Privatization Program
Research Article| May 01 1995 Politics and Economics of Mongolia's Privatization Program Georges Korsun, Georges Korsun Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Peter Murrell Peter Murrell Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1995) 35 (5): 472–486. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645749 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Pee…
The Culture of Policy-Making in the Transition from Socialism: Price Policy in Mongolia
How Far Has the Transition Progressed
As the opening contribution to a four-page symposium, this paper provides an overview of the economic transformation in reforming countries of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, describing reforms, their consequences, and lessons economists might derive from transition. The topics covered are political developments, liberalization, institutional reconstruction, reforms of systems for social protection, and the early results of transition…
End of the Tunnel? The Effects of Financial Stabilization in Russia
Observations on the Use of Law by Russian Enterprises
Four specialists on the Russian economy analyze the extent to which enterprises use law and legal institutions in structuring exchange relations. The analysis uses the responses from questionnaires administered to sixty officials of fifteen enterprises in Moscow and Yekaterinburg during May-June 1996, supplemented by interviews in enterprises and within arbitrazh courts. Their results indicate that enterprises make little use of law and consider …
Chartering the Village: The Making of an African-Centered Charter School
This article is the preliminary descriptive report of a 5-year qualitative research study—an ethnography of an independent African-centered charter school. The purpose of the study is to determine the pedagogical theory undergirding successful development and maintenance of an African-centered charter school. This article analyzes the resilience of attempts to develop an African-centered pedagogy in an independent public school. The analysis is b…
Do Repeat Players Behave Differently in Russia? Contractual and Litigation Behavior of Russian Enterprises
We examine whether Galanter's repeat player (RP) concept helps in deciphering the law-related behavior of Russian enterprises. We adapt the RP concept to the Russian context defining the Russian repeat player (RRP). Using data from 328 enterprises, we examine whether RRP-ness explains the use of protokols of disagreement, petitioning to freeze assets, contractual prepayment, and litigation activity. RRPs are very different from Galanter's RPs, ge…
Law, Relationships and Private Enforcement: Transactional Strategies of Russian Enterprises
Bank, and of the U.S. Agency for International Development under Cooperative Agreement No. DHR-0015-A-00-0031-00 to the Center on Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS). The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. Law, Relationships, and Private Enforcem…
Community Teachers: A Conceptual Framework for Preparing Exemplary Urban Teachers
Peter C. Murrell, Jr., Community Teachers: A Conceptual Framework for Preparing Exemplary Urban Teachers, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 69, No. 4, The School Reform Movement and the Education of African American Youth: A Retrospective Update (Autumn, 2000), pp. 338-348
Agents of Change or Unchanging Agents? The Role of Lawyers within Russian Industrial Enterprises
The transition from state socialism toward market capitalism has led to an almost endless supply of new laws and legal institutions. Industrial enterprises need to adapt to this new institutional regime. In-house lawyers are well placed to be agents of change in facilitating this adjustment. Using survey data from 328 Russian enterprises, the article examines the role of company lawyers, asking whether they have fulfilled this potential. Legal ex…
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