Law and finance

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1113-1155

  La Porta, Rafael ^b   Lopez de Silanes, Florencio ^b   Shleifer, Andrei ^b   Vishny, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENT; LEGISLATION;

EID: 0032416910     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/250042     Document Type: Article

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