Beck, Thorsten; Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - 2013
external finance than firms in common law countries. Next, their results indicate that French legal origin countries tend to … have (1) less adaptable legal systems, as defined by the degree to which case law and principles of equity rather than … simply statutory law are accepted foundations of legal decisions, and (2) less politically independent judiciaries, as …