Investor protections and economic growth

Jamal Haidar ()

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 103, issue 1, 1-4

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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