This study is part of a larger international investigation of the effects of a country's legal origins on the style of business regulation. We employ an innovative 'leximetric' methodology to numerically code the protective strength of Australian corporate law for both shareholder and creditor...

This article utilises leximetric analysis, which involves the numerical coding of the strength of legal protections, to show changes in levels of shareholder and creditor protection in Australia for the period 1970-2010. This form of analysis, originally developed by La Porta et al, and...