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Asset restructuring and business group affiliation in French civil law countries
- Strategic Management Journal
, 2004
"... We examine the relationship of environmental antecedents to asset restructuring in nine French civil law countries in Latin America and Europe. In these countries, business group affiliation helps member firms to access resources, take advantage of environmental opportunities, and neutralize threats ..."
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We examine the relationship of environmental antecedents to asset restructuring in nine French civil law countries in Latin America and Europe. In these countries, business group affiliation helps member firms to access resources, take advantage of environmental opportunities, and neutralize
Law and finance
- Journal of Political Economy
, 1998
"... This paper examines legal rules covering protection of corporate shareholders and creditors, the origin of these rules, and the qual-ity of their enforcement in 49 countries. The results show that common-law countries generally have the strongest, and French-civil-law countries the weakest, legal pr ..."
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This paper examines legal rules covering protection of corporate shareholders and creditors, the origin of these rules, and the qual-ity of their enforcement in 49 countries. The results show that common-law countries generally have the strongest, and French-civil-law countries the weakest, legal
The Feldstein−Horioka puzzle and law Hiroshi Gunji Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
"... In this paper, we introduce a proxy for the legal protection of investors, a dummy variable that indicates legal origins, into the Feldstein and Horioka (1980, Economic Journal 90) saving−investment regression. The estimations show that in the French−civil−law countries, which have the weakest inves ..."
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In this paper, we introduce a proxy for the legal protection of investors, a dummy variable that indicates legal origins, into the Feldstein and Horioka (1980, Economic Journal 90) saving−investment regression. The estimations show that in the French−civil−law countries, which have the weakest
www.elsevier.com/locate/jfec Private credit in 129 countries $
, 2007
"... We investigate cross-country determinants of private credit, using new data on legal creditor rights and private and public credit registries in 129 countries. Both creditor protection through the legal system and information-sharing institutions are associated with higher ratios of private credit t ..."
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are converging. Finally, legal origins are an important determinant of both creditor rights and informationsharing institutions. The analysis suggests that public credit registries, which are primarily a feature of French civil law countries, benefit private credit markets in developing countries.
What Firms Know
, 2008
"... Abstract: A large literature shows that the legal tradition of a country is highly correlated with various dimensions of institutional quality. Broadly, studies show that English common law countries perform better than the French civil law countries with respect to the regulatory burden on firms, e ..."
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Abstract: A large literature shows that the legal tradition of a country is highly correlated with various dimensions of institutional quality. Broadly, studies show that English common law countries perform better than the French civil law countries with respect to the regulatory burden on firms
The divergence of legal procedures
, 2007
"... Djankov et al. (2003a) propose and measure for 109 countries in the year 2000 an index of formalism of legal procedure for two simple disputes: eviction of a nonpaying tenant and collection of a bounced check. For a sub-sample of 40 countries, we compute this index every year starting in 1950, which ..."
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, which allows us to study the evolution of legal rules. We find that between 1950 and 2000, the formalism of legal procedure did not converge, and possibly diverged, between common law and French civil law countries. At least in this specific area of law, the results are inconsistent with the hypothesis
The authors are from the World Bank, World Bank, and Harvard University, respectively. We are extremely
"... We investigate cross-country determinants of private credit, using new data on legal creditor rights and private and public credit registries in 129 countries. We find that both creditor protection through the legal system and information sharing institutions are associated with higher ratios of pri ..."
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to the hypothesis that legal rules are converging. Finally, we find that legal origins are an important determinant of both creditor rights and information sharing institutions. The analysis suggests that public credit registries, which are primarily a feature of French civil law countries, benefit private credit
Document de travail de la série Etudes et Documents E 2011.20 Legal origin, colonial origin and deforestation
, 2011
"... Les commentaires et analyses développés n’engagent que leurs auteurs qui restent seuls responsables des erreurs et insuffisances. 2 CERDI, Etudes et Documents, E 2011.20 This paper investigates whether inherited legacies such as legal origin allow of explaining deforestation in 110 developed and dev ..."
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and colonial history are strongly correlated, so that one can not attribute all the variance to the effect of the legal system. What is found overall is that (i) French civil law countries deforest less than English common law ones within the total sample, within the sample of colonized countries, and within
applies. A History of Corporate Ownership- France.
"... 1 The French model of corporate ownership and control is quite distinct from the Anglo-American model. It has been described as an insider model because it contains a high degree of concentration of ownership, while the wider dispersion of ownership characterised by the U.K. and U.S. models has been ..."
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. More recently La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, Shleifer and Vishny (2000) asserted that: Common law countries have the strongest protection of outside investors – both shareholders and creditors – whereas French civil law countries have the weakest protection. (2000, 8) Their explanation appears
1CORPORATE OWNERSHIP IN FRANCE-THE IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY
"... their assistance with this paper. The usual disclaimer applies. 2 The French model of corporate ownership and control is quite distinct from the Anglo-American model. It has been described as an insider model because it contains a high degree of concentration of ownership, while the wider dispersion ..."
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, the role of historical factors in shaping the structure of capital markets. More recently La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, Shleifer and Vishny (2000) asserted that: Common law countries have the strongest protection of outside investors – both shareholders and creditors – whereas French civil law countries have
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