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The "Antidirector Rights Index" Revisited
- Holger Spamann
- Economics
- 1 February 2010
The "antidirector rights index" has been used as a measure of shareholder protection in over a hundred articles since it was introduced by La Porta et al. ("Law and Finance." 1998, Journal of… Expand
Regulating Bankers' Pay
- L. A. Bebchuk, Holger Spamann
- Business
- 1 October 2009
This paper seeks to make three contributions to understanding how banks’ executive pay has produced incentives for excessive risk-taking and how such pay should be reformed. First, although there is… Expand
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The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008
- L. Bebchuk, A. Cohen, Holger Spamann
- Economics
- 24 November 2009
The standard narrative of the meltdown of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers assumes that the wealth of the top executives of these firms was largely wiped out along with their firms. In the ongoing… Expand
Legal Origin or Colonial History?
- Daniel M. Klerman, P. Mahoney, Holger Spamann, M. Weinstein
- Economics
- 2 August 2011
Economists have documented pervasive correlations between legal origins, modern regulation, and economic outcomes around the world. Where legal origin is exogenous, however, it is almost perfectly… Expand
On the Insignificance And/Or Endogeneity of La Porta Et Al.'s 'Anti-Director Rights Index' Under Consistent Coding
- Holger Spamann
- Economics
- 1 March 2006
I re-code the "Antidirector Rights Index" (ADRI) of shareholder protection rules from La Porta et al. 1998 for 46 countries in 1997 and 2005 with the help of local lawyers. My emphasis is on… Expand
'Law and Finance' Revisited
- Holger Spamann
- Economics
- 1 February 2008
The Antidirector Rights Index from La Porta et al.'s Law and Finance (1998) has been used as a measure of shareholder protection in almost 100 published studies. With articles by legal scholars… Expand
Legal Origins, Civil Procedure, and the Quality of Contract Enforcement
- Holger Spamann
- Economics
- 12 February 2010
This paper empirically compares civil procedure in common-law and civil-law countries. Using World-Bank and hand-collected data, and unlike earlier studies that used predecessor data sets, this paper… Expand
Large Sample, Quantitative Research Designs for Comparative Law?
- Holger Spamann
- Sociology
- 2 September 2009
A substantial body of comparative legal scholarship considers statements applicable to large, conceptually infinite numbers of countries. Such statements gain in credibility if they are supported by… Expand
The Myth of 'Rebalancing' Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement Practice
- Holger Spamann
- Economics
- 1 March 2006
It is generally assumed that trade retaliation under the WTO performs some kind of 'rebalancing' by allowing the injured Member to suspend 'concessions and obligations' vis-a-vis the violating Member… Expand
Empirical Comparative Law
- Holger Spamann
- Economics
- 1 March 2015
I review the empirical comparative law literature with an emphasis on quantitative work. After situating the field and surveying its main applications to date, I turn to methodological issues. I… Expand