protection afforded to Australian shareholders and creditors with developments in other countries. Our analysis finds that in … Australia there was a sustained upward trend in shareholder protection, but not in the case of creditor protection. Compared to … the five other countries, the level of protection afforded to shareholders under Australian law was relatively high and …

The shareholder and creditor protection indices for Australia are part of a larger international study examining the … shareholder and creditor protection. The indices measure changes between 1970 and 2010 in the protection of shareholders and … creditors in Australia. The index of shareholder rights consists of 60 items in total. It has been divided into two sub …