3 papers
econ.GN2025
Assaults on Judicial Independence under the Pretense of Modernization: Evidence from Venezuela
Nuno Garoupa, Virginia Rosales, Rok Spruk
We investigate how government-orchestrated assaults on the judiciary, disguised as modernization efforts, undermine judicial independence. Our study focuses on Venezuela's constitu…
econ.GN2025
Revolutions as Structural Breaks: The Long-Term Economic and Institutional Consequences of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
Nuno Garoupa, Rok Spruk
This paper examines whether major political institutional disruptions produce temporary shocks or structural breaks in long-term development. Using the 1979 Iranian Revolution as a…
econ.GN2024
Populist Constitutional Backsliding and Judicial Independence: Evidence from Turkiye
Nuno Garoupa, Rok Spruk
The synthetic control method has emerged as a widely utilized empirical tool for estimating the causal effects of public policies, natural disasters, and other interventions on var…