Recent ”law and finance” research implies that minority shareholder rights are heavily affected by the legal tradition. This in turn has economic implications for a company´s ability to raise equity capital from outsiders, i.e., from minority investors. In a famous study by La Porta et al....

Tests for unit roots in log dividend yields, which are consistent with `rational bubbles' in stock prices, are conducted for the S&P500 and Finnish stock market indexes.In addition to the traditional unit root tests, we split the data into 10-year segments and use frequency domain analysis to...