Investor Protections and Economic Growth
8 Pages Posted: 26 Mar 2008 Last revised: 1 Dec 2009
Abstract
Using objective measures of investor protections in 170 countries, I establish that the level of investor protection matters for cross-country differences in GDP growth: countries with stronger protections tend to grow faster than those with poor investor protections.
Keywords: corporate governance, investor protection, self-dealing, growth
JEL Classification: G3, K
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