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How Do Legal Rules Evolve? Evidence from a Cross-Country Comparison of Shareholder, Creditor, and Worker Protection

Abstract:: Much attention has been devoted in recent literature to the claim that a country's "legal origin" may make a difference to its pattern of financial development and more generally to its economic growth path. Proponents of this view assert that the "family" within which a country's legal system originated-be it common law, or one of the varieties of civil law-has a significant impact upon the quality of its legal protection of shareholders, which in turn impacts upon economic growth, through t...
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Armour, J., Deakin, S., Lele, P., & Siems, M. (2009). How Do Legal Rules Evolve? Evidence from a Cross-Country Comparison of Shareholder, Creditor, and Worker Protection. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW, 57(3), 579–629.

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Armour, J., et al. “How Do Legal Rules Evolve? Evidence from a Cross-Country Comparison of Shareholder, Creditor, and Worker Protection.” AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW, vol. 57, no. 3, 2009, pp. 579–629.

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Armour, J, S Deakin, P Lele, and M Siems. 2009. “How Do Legal Rules Evolve? Evidence from a Cross-Country Comparison of Shareholder, Creditor, and Worker Protection.” AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW 57 (3): 579–629.
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Journal:: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW
Volume:: 57
Issue:: 3
Pages:: 579-629
Publication date:: 2009-01-01
ISSN:: 0002-919X

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Source identifiers:: 478490
Deposit date:: 2014-08-16

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