Showing 1 - 10 of 13
In this paper, using new estimates of the size of the UK's capital market, we examine financial development and investor protection laws in Britain c.1900 to test the influential law and finance hypothesis. Our evidence suggests that there was not a close correlation between financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102541
"How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature argues that legal origins have persistent effects that explain clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world today (La Porta et al,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994924
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771046
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003369807
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641284
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003710917
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003245922
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003384592
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003761938
How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature argues that legal origins have persistent effects that explain clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world today (La Porta et al, 1998,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462439