This paper sets a new tone in the legal origins debate with the overwhelming dominance of French civil-law countries in … private investment: contrary to mainstream consensus where-in, English common-law countries are better at championing private … shape domestic, foreign, private and public investments through law channels of regulation quality and the rule of law. …

finance. It is a natural extension of “Law and finance: why does legal origin matter?” by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç …) hypotheses that English common-law countries tend to have better developed financial intermediaries than French civil-law …

This paper assesses how legal-origin influences financial development through regulation quality and the rule of law …. It uses data collected after pioneering works on the law-finance nexus to assess hypotheses resulting there-from in the … policy implications results support the benefits of law channels to financial development in the continent. …

This paper cuts adrift the mainstream approach to the legal-origins debate on the law-growth nexus by integrating both … overall economic and human components in our understanding of how regulation quality and the rule of law lie at the heart of … growth and human development beyond the mechanisms of law channels. As a policy implication results support benefits of the …