Shareholder protection in China from a numerical comparative law perspective

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Huang, Flora and Yeung, Horace 2019. Shareholder protection in China from a numerical comparative law perspective. Chinese Journal of Comparative Law.
AuthorsHuang, Flora and Yeung, Horace
Abstract

The traditional approach in legal comparative research is doctrinal rule based. A relatively recent breakthrough has been the use of econometric techniques in comparing the extent of success in different jurisdictions with respect to, for example, protecting shareholders. The meshing of legal research and econometrics is known as ‘leximetrics’. One of the most prominent and widely cited use of leximetrics is the seminal study by Rafael La Porta and colleagues on the correlation between shareholder protection and financial development. The study, though highly influential, has attracted various criticisms. Subsequent studies have sought to build on the study by coming up with improved research design. For example, using a panel data set covering a range of developed and developing countries, researchers from the Cambridge Centre for Business Research have discovered that a significant upward movement in the level of shareholder protection was made by China between 1990 and 2013. It has been suggested that, during this period, China experienced the ‘biggest increase in shareholder protection’ among 30 countries studied, and China was amongst the top performers (along with France and Russia) in shareholder protection in 2013, performing even better than the United Kingdom and the USA. At the same time, the World Bank’s Protecting Minority Investors Index, which forms part of its Doing Business reports, has recently painted a rather opposite picture, in contrast to the positive assessment by the Centre for Business Research, by putting China in the 119th position out of 190 countries, which indicates a very mediocre performance. This article seeks to address the question of whether and how the two studies, both employing leximetric techniques and examining an ostensibly similar issue, can point to discrepant results.

KeywordsInvestor protection, China, numerical comparative law
Year2019
JournalChinese Journal of Comparative Law
PublisherOxford Academic
Web address (URL)http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624552
hdl:10545/624552
Publication dates16 Apr 2019
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Deposited05 Mar 2020, 15:55
Accepted02 Jan 2019
ContributorsUniversity of Essex and University of Leicester
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