Variable: Legal Origin

QoG Code: (lp_legor)

Dataset: Data used in the article "The Quality of Government"

Description:

Legal origin: Identifies the legal origin of the Company Law or Commercial code of each country. There are five possible origins:

1. English Common Law
2. French Commercial Code
3. Socialist/Communist Laws
4. German Commercial Code
5. Scandinavian Commercial Code

Type of variable: Categorical

Last updated by source: 1999-04-30

Categories:

Judicial History

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Details of this variable in our compilations datasets

Dataset	No. Countries
Standard cross-section:	153
Standard time-series:	157
OECD time-series:	30