What Works in Securities Law
By R. La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silane, A. Shleifer. 2003
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Subfields: Finance
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- Agency Conflicts, Ownership Concentration, and Legal Shareholder Protection (2006, unknown): “La Porta et al. (2004) and Barth et al.”
- Earnings attributes and investor-protection: International evidence (2006, unknown): “Leuz et al. (2003) suggest a possible solution to this problem by introducing a closeness-to-cash benchmark for underlying “economic income” using absolute working-capital accruals as a measure of earnings management and then scaling this measure by absolute cash flow from operations.”
- Strategic Ownership Structure and the Cost of Debt (2012, unknown): “Our results here complement and extend the analysis of La Porta et al. (2003). Using data on Mexican rms, they nd that related lending transactions take place on better terms than arms-length lending.”
- Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions and European Integration (2009, unknown): “This indicator is nevertheless highly correlated to other institutional variables, such as corruption indices from Transparency International or variables from La Porta et al. (2006).”
- The Role of International Financial Reporting Standards in Accounting Quality: Evidence from the European Union (2010, background): “Moreover, the EU has built up solid institutional infrastructures, such as strong investor protection and legal enforcement, clean government, and so on (e.g., Wingate, 1997; La Porta et al., 1998, 2006; Transparency International, 2000–2007; Djankov et al., 2008; Kaufmann et al., 2008).”
- The Global History of Corporate Governance: An Introduction (2005, unknown): “La Porta et al. (1999) list several large German and Japanese firms as having no controlling shareholder.”
- Unchecked intermediaries: Price manipulation in an emerging stock market (2005, unknown): “The governance of equity market intermediaries through the appropriate design and enforcement of law and regulation particularly in emerging markets has received increased emphasis recently (see Glaeser et al., 2001; La Porta et al., 2003).”