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State Capacity, Minority Shareholder Protections, and Stock Market Development

A longitudinal dataset on the adoption of minority shareholders' legal protections and the development of the stock market in 78 countries between 1970 and 2016.

Dataset type

Time-Series

Dataset level

Country

Last updated by source

2017-11-10

Citation

When using this dataset, please cite as:

• Guillén, M., & Capron, L. (2016). State capacity, minority shareholder protections, and stock market development. Administrative Science Quarterly, 61(1), 125–160.

@article{gc1,
 author = {Guillén, Mauro and Capron, Laurence},
 journal = {Administrative Science Quarterly},
 last_updated = {2024-09-18},
 number = {1},
 pages = {125--160},
 title = {State Capacity, Minority Shareholder Protections, and Stock Market Development},
 volume = {61},
 year = {2016}
}

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Minority Shareholder Rights

QoG code: gc_shr

The ten key legal provisions identified as most relevant to the protection of minority shareholder rights are coded by a team of legal scholars coded between 0 and 1. The measures are not dichotomous ...

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