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Governing Emerging Stock Markets: legal vs administrative governance

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  • Katharina Pistor
  • Chenggang Xu

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Transition economies face a fundamental dilemma. They need to develop financial markets, and yet they lack the ingredients it takes to do so. Recipes for legal governance mechanisms that have worked elsewhere, including reactive law enforcement by courts and proactive law enforcement by regulators, may not help in the short to medium term. Using evidence from stock market development in China and Russia, this paper suggests that at least in the short term, administrative governance may be a viable alternative to legal governance in emerging stock markets.

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  • Katharina Pistor & Chenggang Xu, 2005. "Governing Emerging Stock Markets: legal vs administrative governance," Corporate Governance: An International Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 13(1), pages 5-10, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:corgov:v:13:y:2005:i:1:p:5-10
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2005.00398.x
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