Financial and Legal Institutions and Firm Size

Financial and Legal Institutions and Firm Size

The authors investigate how a country's financial institutions and the quality of its legal system explain the size attained by its largest industrial firms in a sample of 44 countries. Firm size is positively related to the size of the bankin...

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Main Authors: Beck, Thorsten, Demirguc-Kunt, Asli, Maksimovic, Vojislav
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
ACCOUNTING
ADVERSE SELECTION
AGENCY PROBLEMS
ASSETS
BANK CREDIT
BANK MONITORING
BANKING SECTOR
BANKING SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
BANKING SYSTEM
BANKING SYSTEMS
BANKRUPTCY
BANKS
BENCHMARK
CAPITAL MARKETS
CAPITALIZATION
COMMERCIAL BANKS
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
CONGLOMERATES
CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT
CORPORATE FINANCE
CORPORATION
CORPORATIONS
DISEQUILIBRIUM
DIVERSIFICATION
DIVIDEND POLICY
ECONOMIES OF SCALE
ENTREPRENEURS
EQUILIBRIUM
EXPORTS
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FINANCIAL PLANNING
FINANCIAL SECTOR
FINANCIAL SERVICES
FINANCIAL STRUCTURE
FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
FIRM SIZE
FIRMS
GDP
GDP PER CAPITA
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT PER CAPITA
GROWTH RATE
HUMAN CAPITAL
INEFFICIENCY
INFLATION
INFLATION RATE
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
LAWS
LEGAL PROTECTION
MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
NATIONAL INCOME
NET SALES
OLIGOPOLY
OPEN ECONOMIES
OPPORTUNITY COSTS
ORGANIZATIONAL CAPITAL
PER CAPITA INCOMES
PRIVATE BANKS
PRODUCTIVITY
PROFIT RATE
PROFITABILITY
REAL GDP
REORGANIZATION
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
RETURN ON ASSETS
SIZE OF FIRMS
SMALL FIRMS
TOTAL OUTPUT
WAGES
WEALTH FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
LEGAL FRAMEWORK
INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY
LEGAL & REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
EXTERNAL FINANCE
CREDITOR COUNTRIES
CAPITAL INVESTMENTS
PROTECTION SYSTEMS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/03/2181644/financial-legal-institutions-firm-size
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19157

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/03/2181644/financial-legal-institutions-firm-size
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19157

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