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Legal Determinants of External Finance


Rafael La Porta


Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Florencio Lopez de Silanes


EDHEC Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Tinbergen Institute

Andrei Shleifer


Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Robert W. Vishny


University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
January 1997

NBER Working Paper No. w5879

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Using a sample of 49 countries, we show that countries with poorer investor protections, measured by both the character of legal rules and the quality of law enforcement, have smaller and narrower capital markets. These findings apply to both equity and debt markets. In particular, French civil law countries have both the weakest investor protections and the least developed capital markets, especially as compared to common law countries.

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Date posted: March 12, 1997  

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La Porta, Rafael, Lopez de Silanes, Florencio, Shleifer, Andrei and Vishny, Robert W., Legal Determinants of External Finance (January 1997). NBER Working Paper No. w5879. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=8179

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Rafael La Porta
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business ( email )
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United States
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Florencio Lopez de Silanes
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Harvard University - Department of Economics ( email )
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Robert W. Vishny
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