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Legal Origin, Shareholder Protection and the Stock Market: New Challenges from Time Series Analysis

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Sonja Fagernäs
Prabirjit Sarkar
Ajit Singh

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This paper uses a new time series dataset of shareholder protection consisting of 60 annual legal indicators for the period 1970-2005 for France, Germany, the UK and the US. On the basis of these data it examines developments in shareholder protection and reassesses the claims that common-law countries have better shareholder protection than civil law countries. Furthermore it examines the relationship between legal changes and stock market development. It casts serious doubt on the claim that common-law countries have better shareholder protection which in turn leads to more stock market development.

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Keywords: Stock Market; Corporate Governance; Financial Development; Leximetrics;

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G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
O16 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment
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  1. John Armour & Simon Deakin & Prabirjit Sarkar & Mathias Siems & Ajit Singh, 2008. "Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development: An Empirical Test of the Legal Origins Hypothesis," WEF Working Papers 0041, ESRC World Economy and Finance Research Programme, Birkbeck, University of London. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Simon Deakin, 2008. "Legal Origin, Juridical Form and Industrialisation in Historical Perspective: The Case of the Employment Contract and the Joint-Stock Company," ESRC Centre for Business Research - Working Papers wp369, ESRC Centre for Business Research. [Downloadable!]
  3. Sarkar, Prabirjit, 2007. "Stock Market Developments and Capital Accumulation in India: Does Better Shareholder Protection Matter?," MPRA Paper 4996, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
  4. Sarkar, Prabirjit, 2007. "Capital Accumulation in Less Developed Countries: Does Stock Market Matter?," MPRA Paper 5053, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
  5. Simon Deakin, 2008. "Legal Origin, Juridical Form and Industrialisation in Historical Perspective: The Case of the Employment Contract and the Joint-Stock Company," WEF Working Papers 0042, ESRC World Economy and Finance Research Programme, Birkbeck, University of London. [Downloadable!]
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