Coyle, Christopher; Musacchio, Aldo; Turner, John D. - 2019
investor protection laws in Britain c.1900 to test the influential law and finance hypothesis. Our evidence suggests that there … was not a close correlation between financial development and investor protection laws c.1900 and that the size of the UK …’s share market is a puzzle given the paucity of statutory investor protection. To illustrate that Britain was not unique in …