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Legal origins: reconciling law and finance and comparative law

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Mathias M Siems

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In the last few years law and finance scholars have 'discovered' the usefulness of comparative law. Their studies look at the quantifiable effect that legal rules and their enforcement have on financial development in different countries. Moreover, they link their results with the long- standing distinction between Civil Law and Common Law countries. Whether this revival of 'legal families' is a useful way forward is, however, a matter of debate. The following article challenges these studies and looks for characteristic features which are more precise and meaningful than the use of legal families as such.

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Paper provided by ESRC Centre for Business Research in its series ESRC Centre for Business Research - Working Papers with number wp321.

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Keywords: legal origins; legal families; legal traditions; numerical comparative law; law and finance; law and development; Civil Law; Common Law;

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K22 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Corporation and Securities Law
N20 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - General, International, or Comparative
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O10 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
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