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Indices of minority shareholder protection of countries with civil law with and without french origin.

Description

This data contains the indices of minority shareholder protection on a scale from 0 to 1 in 51 countries with civil law, differentiating between those with (32 observations) and those without (19 observations) french origin. A higher value of the index means that country is more protected. The data set is taken from Djankov et al. (2008).

Format

A list containing a vector of 32 observations of countries with french origin and a vector of 19 countries without french origin.

References

Djankov, S., La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., & Shleifer, A. (2008). The law and economics of self-dealing. Journal of financial economics, 88(3), 430-465.