This paper analyses a longitudinal dataset on legal protection of shareholders over a 36 year period, 970-2005 for four advanced countries, UK, France, Germany and the US. It examines two aspects of the legal origin hypothesis - whether shareholder protection is higher in the common law...

This paper seeks to answer the question: does the stock market work? Is there any link between stock market development and private corporate capital accumulation? It seeks an answer to these questions on the basis of a time-series analysis of Indian data. Our conclusion is in favour of a...