The law and economics of self-dealing |
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Authors: | Simeon Djankov Rafael La Porta Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes Andrei Shleifer |
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Institution: | 1. The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433, USA;2. Dartmouth Colllege, Tuck School of Business, 314 Woodbury Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA;3. EDHEC Graduate School of Management, France;4. Harvard University, M9 Littauer Center, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA |
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Abstract: | We present a new measure of legal protection of minority shareholders against expropriation by corporate insiders: the anti-self-dealing index. Assembled with the help of Lex Mundi law firms, the index is calculated for 72 countries based on legal rules prevailing in 2003, and focuses on private enforcement mechanisms, such as disclosure, approval, and litigation, that govern a specific self-dealing transaction. This theoretically grounded index predicts a variety of stock market outcomes, and generally works better than the previously introduced index of anti-director rights. |
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Keywords: | G3 G15 G38 K22 P51 |
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