Law, endowments, and finance

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 137-181

  Beck, Thorsten ^a   Demirgüç Kunt, Asli ^a   Levine, Ross ^b,c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic development; Endowments; Financial development; Law; Property rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142072768     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-405X(03)00144-2     Document Type: Article

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