. We compile a new data set on citizenship laws across countries of the world which documents how these institutions have …

-lasting impact on market exchange and technological investment is one of the most pressing questions in law, economics and history …

This chapter discusses the law and finance scholarship, from its beginning to its developments into legal research and … policymaking. The key issue of the importance of law for finance is illustrated along with the controversy on the law matters … that the importance of the law for finance goes beyond investor protection. Efficient corporate law must include the …

legal origins (La Porta et al) and the World Bank's Doing Business reports with discussions in comparative law about the …

cross-sectional datasets which provide evidence on the state of the law only at limited points in time. There is now a … be of little help in explaining trends in the law relating to shareholder protection, although the classification of …

In many modern nation states, both rich and poor, traditional law to this day plays an important role. Given the almost … universal prevalence of traditional law, it is surprising how little we know about it. This is the first study that tries to … take stock of traditional law from a cross-country perspective. We are also interested in the compatibility of traditional …