Florencio López‐de‐Silanes

Research topics

• Corporate Finance and Governance · 3 papers
• Banking stability, regulation, efficiency · 3 papers
• Corporate Insolvency and Governance · 1 paper
• Economic Growth and Development · 1 paper
• Insurance and Financial Risk Management · 1 paper

Frequent co-authors

• Andrei Shleifer · 3 papers
• Robert W. Vishny · 2 papers

Papers

1. Law and FinanceJournal of Political Economy · 1998 · 18,393 citations

   This paper examines legal rules covering protection of corporate shareholders and creditors, the origin of these rules, and the quality of their enforcement in 49 countries. The results show that common‐law countries generally have the strongest, and frenchcivillaw countries the…

2. Corporate Ownership Around the WorldThe Journal of Finance · 1999 · 10,797 citations

   ABSTRACT We use data on ownership structures of large corporations in 27 wealthy economies to identify the ultimate controlling shareholders of these firms. We find that, except in economies with very good shareholder protection, relatively few of these firms are…

3. Legal Determinants of External FinanceThe Journal of Finance · 1997 · 10,056 citations

   ABSTRACT Using a sample of 49 countries, we show that countries with poorer investor protections, measured by both the character of legal rules and the quality of law enforcement, have smaller and narrower capital markets. These findings apply to both…