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Investor Protection and Corporate Governance (1999)
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@MISC{Porta99investorprotection,
author = {Rafael La Porta and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny},
title = {Investor Protection and Corporate Governance },
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
Recent research on corporate governance has documented large differences between countries in ownership concentration in publicly traded firms, in the breadth and depth of financial markets, and in the access of firms to external finance. We suggest that there is a common element to the explanations of these differences, namely how well investors, both shareholders and creditors, are protected by law from expropriation by the managers and controlling shareholders of firms. We describe the differences in laws and the effectiveness of their enforcement across countries, summarize the consequences of these differences, and suggest potential strategies of reform of corporate governance. We argue that the legal approach is a more fruitful way to understand corporate governance and its reform than the conventional distinction between bank-centered and market-centered financial systems.
