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Datasets: further works

Centre for Business Research
Centre for Business Research

Works by members of the CBR relating to the CBR datasets

  • Adams, Z., and Deakin, S. (2015) ‘Quantitative labour law’, in A. Ludlow and A. Blackham (eds.) New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research (Oxford: Hart). 
  • Ahlering, B. and Deakin, S. (2007) ‘Labour regulation, corporate governance and legal origin: a case of institutional complementarity?’ Law and Society Review, 41: 865-908
  • Armour, J., Deakin, S., Lele, P. and Siems, M. (2009) ‘How do legal rules evolve? Evidence from a cross-national comparison of shareholder, creditor and worker protection’ American Journal of Comparative Law, 57: 579-630.
  • Armour, J., Deakin, S., Sarkar, P., Siems, M. and Singh, A. (2009) ‘Shareholder protection and stock market development: an empirical test of the legal origins hypothesis’ Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 6: 343-380.
  • Armour, J., Deakin, S., Mollica, V. and Siems, M. (2009) ‘Law and financial development: what we are learning from time series evidence’ Brigham Young University Law Review: 1435-1500.
  • Deakin, S. (2009) ‘Legal origin, juridical form and industrialisation in historical perspective: the case of the employment relationship and the joint stock company’, Socio-Economic Review, 7: 35-65.
  • Deakin, S. (2010) ‘Corporate governance, finance and growth: unravelling the relationship’ Acta Juridica: 191-218. 
  • Deakin, S. and Adams, Z. (2015) ‘Corporate governance and employee relations’, in J. Gordon and W.-G. Ringe (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
  • Deakin, S., Demetriades, P. and James, G. (2010) ‘Creditor rights and banking system development in India’ Economics Letters, 108: 19-21.
  • Deakin, S., Fenwick, C. and Sarkar, P. (2014) ‘Labour law and inclusive development: the economic effects of industrial relations laws in middle-income countries’, in M. Schmiegelow and H. Schmiegelow (eds.) Institutional Competition between Common Law and Civil Law (Frankfurt: Springer), 185-209. 
  • Deakin, S., Lele, P., Siems, M. (2007), ‘The evolution of labour law: calibrating and comparing regulatory regimes’ International Labour Review, 146: 133-162.
  • Deakin, S., Malmberg, J. and Sarkar, P. (2014) ‘How do labour laws affect unemployment and the labour share of national income? The experience of six OECD countries, 1970–2010’ International Labour Review, 153: 1-27.
  • Deakin, S. and Sarkar, P. (2008) ‘Assessing the long-run economic impact of labour law systems: a theoretical reappraisal and analysis of new time series data’, Industrial Relations Journal, 39: 453-487.
  • Katelouzou, D., and Siems, M. (2015) ‘Disappearing paradigms in shareholder protection: leximetric evidence for 30 Countries, 1990-2013’ Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 15: 127-160.
  • Lele, P. and Siems, M. (2007) ‘Diversity in shareholder protection in common law countries’, DICE Report – Journal for Institutional Comparisons 5/1: 3-9.
  • Lele, P. and Siems, M. (2007) ‘Shareholder protection: a leximetric approach’ Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 7: 17-50.
  • Lele, P. and Siems, M. (2009) ‘Der Schutz von Aktionären im Rechtsvergleich: Eine leximetrische und ökonometrische Untersuchung’, Zeitschrift für das gesamte Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht, 173: 119-141.
  • Siems, M. (2010) ‘The web of creditor and shareholder protection: a comparative legal network analysis’ Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law
  • Siems, M. (2010) ‘Convergence in corporate governance: a leximetric approach’ Journal of Corporation Law, 35: 729-765.
  • Siems, M. and Deakin, S. (2010) ‘Comparative law and finance: past, present and future research’ Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 166: 120-140.
  • Siems, M. (2007) ‘Reconciling law & finance and comparative law’ McGill Law Journal, 52: 55-81.
  • Siems, M. (2007) ‘The end of comparative law’ Journal of Comparative Law, 2: 133-150.
  • Siems, M ‘The leximetric research on shareholder protection’ (2015) in J. Hill and R. Thomas (eds.), Research Handbook on Shareholder Power (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), 168-185.
  • Sarkar, P. (2009) ‘Do the English legal origin systems have more dispersed share ownership and more developed financial systems?’ International Journal of the Economics of Business, 16: 73-86.
  • Sarkar, P., and Singh, A. (2009) ‘Law, finance and development: further analyses of longitudinal data’ Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34: 325-46.
  • Siems, M. (2016) ‘Measuring law: picking the least worst option’ Socio-Economic Review, 14: forthcoming.
  • Siems, M. (2006) ‘Shareholder Protection Across Countries – Is the EU on the Right Track?’, DICE Report – Journal for Institutional Comparisons 4/3: 39-43.
  • Siems, M. (2008) ‘Numerische Rechtsgeschichte: Sind juristische Zeitreihen sinnvoll?’ (‘Numerical legal history: are legal time-series useful?’) Zeitschrift für Neuere Rechtsgeschichte, 30: 65-77.
  • Siems, M. (2008) ‘Statistische Rechtsvergleichung’ Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, 37: 354-390.
  • Siems, M. (2008), ‘Shareholder protection around the world (“Leximetric II”)’ Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, 33: 111-147.

Works by Third Parties citing, using, replicating and/or extending the CBR datasets

  • Acharya, V., Baghai-Wadji, R. and Subramanian, K. (2014) ‘Labor laws and innovation’ Journal of Law and Economics, 56: 997-1073. 
  • Aleksynska, M. (2015) ‘Banking crises, labour reforms, and unemployment: a comment’ Journal of Comparative Economics, 43: 1134-1141.
  • Aleksynska, M. and Cazes, S. (2016) ‘Composite indicators of labour market regulations in a comparative perspective’ IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 5(3), doi 10.1186/s40172-016-0043-y.
  • Anderson, G., Gahan, P., Mitchell, R., and Stewart, A. (2011) ‘Evolution of labor law in New Zealand: a comparative study of New Zealand, Australia, and Five Other Countries’ Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 33: 137-170.
  • Anderson, H., Welsh, M., Ramsay, I., and Gahan, P. (2012) ‘The evolution of shareholder and creditor protection in Australia: an international comparison’ International and Comparative Law Quarterly 61, 171–207.
  • Anderson, H., Welsh, M., Ramsay, I., and Gahan, P. (2012) Shareholder and creditor protection in Australia – a leximetric analysis’ Company and Securities Law Journal, 30: 366–390.
  • Belloc, F. (2013) ‘Law, finance and innovation: the dark side of shareholder protection’ Cambridge Journal of Economics, 37: 863-888.
  • Belloc, F. (2016) ‘Employee representation legislation and innovation: evidence from manufacturing sectors’ (March 2, 2016). FEEM Working Paper No. 004.2016.
  • Cheffins, B. (2014) ‘Hedge fund activism Canadian style’ University of British Columbia Law Review, 47: 33.
  • Cheffins, B., Bank, S., and Wells, H. (2014) ‘The race to the bottom recalculated: scoring corporate law over time’ UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper.
  • Colomer, J. (2012) ‘Appendix 2: name-matching algorithms’, in B. Kogut (ed.) The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
  • Cooney, S., Gahan, P. and Mitchell, R. (2009) ‘Legal origins, labour law and the regulation of employment relations’ Social Science Research Network (DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1544032)
  • Cooney, S., Gahan, P., Marshall, S., Mitchell, R., and Stewart, A. (2009) ‘The labour market regulation index, Australia 1970-2010: variable definitions and description of the data’ (DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1576907)
  • Cooney, S., Mahy, P., Mitchell, R., and Gahan, P. (2014) ‘The evolution of labor law in three Asian nations: an introductory comparative study’ Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 36: 23.
  • Cumming, D. and Zhang, M. (2016) ‘Angel investors around the world.’ (DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2716312)
  • Cuomo, F., Zattoni, A., and Valentini, G. (2013) ‘The effects of legal reforms on the ownership structure of listed companies’ Industrial and Corporate Change 22, 427–458.
  • Damiani, M. (2010) ‘Labour regulation, corporate governance and varieties of capitalism’ Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia, Finanza e Statistica, University of Perugia.
  • Darcillon, T. (2015) ‘Corporate governance reforms and political partisanship: an empirical analysis in 16 OECD countries’ Business and Politics, 17: 661-676.
  • Davidov, G. (2008) ‘Unbound: some comments on Israel’s judicially-developed labor law’ Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 30, 283.
  • Katelouzou, D. (2015) ‘Worldwide hedge fund activism: dimensions and legal determinants’ University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, 17: 789–973.
  • Estlund, C. (2013) ‘Individual employee rights at work’, in C. Frege and J. Kelly (eds.) Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy (London: Routledge).
  • Fakoya, M. (2014) ‘Natural resource, value added and economic growth: empirical analysis from selected African countries’ Journal of Human Ecology, 48: 227–233.
  • Gahan, P., Mitchell, R., Cooney, S., Stewart, A., and Cooper, B. (2012) ‘Economic globalisation and convergence in labour market regulation: an empirical assessment’ American Journal of Comparative Law 60, 703–742.
  • Guillén, M. and Capron, L. (2016) ‘State capacity, minority shareholder protections, and stock market development’ Administrative Science Quarterly, 61: 125-60.
  • Guillén, M. and Capron, L. (2016) ‘Guillén-Capron Shareholder Protections Index’, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Hevenstone, D. (2009) ‘Government-provided versus mandated labour protections: economic distortions or worker security?’ ILO working paper.
  • Hevenstone, D. (2011) ‘Flexicurity, happiness, and satisfaction’ International Journal of Sociology, 41: 7–45.
  • Iancu, A., Popescu, L. Popescu, V. (2011) ‘The flexibility demands of globalized labor markets: active labor market policies in a flexicurity system’ Economics, Management and Financial Markets 6, 191-96.
  • Katelouzou, D. (2014) ‘A leximetric approach to comparative corporate governance: the case of hedge fund activism’ Journal of Comparative Law, 9: 43-64.
  • Koch, C., Nilsson, O., Jonnergaard, K. (2013) ‘The regulatory effect on the performance of financial analysts: time series from two different legal systems’ Journal of Business and Financial Affairs, 2: 2167–234.
  • Lee, S. (2012) ‘Varieties of minimum wage system through the dubious lens of indicator-based rankings’ International Labour Review, 151: 261–275.
  • Lee, S., Aleksynska, M., Rani, U., Bonnet, F., Fenwick, C., Lansky, M., Macis, M., and Monti, P. (2014) ‘Labour and social protection institutions: recent trends and impact on development’, in ILO, World of Work Report 2014, 85–108 (Geneva: ILO).
  • Lien, Y.-C., Li, S., and Teng, C.-C. (2015) ’Institutional reform and corporate governance effect of family control’ Family Business Review, 29: 174-88.
  • Marjit, S. (2009) India Macroeconomics Annual 2008 (Delhi: SAGE Publications India).
  • Mitchell, R., Gahan, P., Stewart, A., Cooney, S., and Marshall, S. (2010) ‘The evolution of labour law in Australia: measuring the change’ Australian Journal of Labour Law, 23: 61–93.
  • Mitchell, R., Mahy, P., and Gahan, P. (2014) ‘The evolution of labour law in India: an overview and commentary on regulatory objectives and development’ Asian Journal of Law and Society, 1: 413–453.
  • Ochel, W. (2009) ‘Employment protection: concepts and measurement’ CESifo DICE Report, 7: 30–38.
  • Rogowski, R. (2013) Reflexive Labour Law in the World Society (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).
  • Samanta, N. (2015) ‘The impact of adopting shareholder primacy corporate governance on the growth of the financial market in developing countries’ Ph.D. Thesis, University of Sheffield.
  • Sari, D. and Kucera, D. (2011) ‘Measuring progress towards the application of freedom of association and collective bargaining rights: A tabular presentation of the findings of the ILO supervisory system’ ILO Policy Integration Department Working Paper No. 99 (Geneva: ILO).
  • Schmiegelow, M. and Schmiegelow, H. (eds.) (2014) Institutional Competition between Common Law and Civil Law: Theory and Policy (Frankfurt: Springer).
  • Stergiou, V. (2011) ‘The complex relationship of concentrated ownership structures and corporate governance’ Ph.D. Thesis, London School of Economics.
  • Stewart, A., Gahan, P., McCrystal, S., and Chapman, A. (2015) ‘Labour regulation: is there a case for major reform?’ Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Framework.
  • Von Koch, C., Nilsson, O., and Collin, S.-O. (2015) ‘The influence of investor protection on the performance of financial analysts: time series analyses in four different legal systems’ International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, 12: 167–184.
  • Von Koch, C., Nilsson, O., Eriksson, K. (2014) ‘Does shareholder protection affect the performance of analysts as a gatekeeper?’ Journal of Management & Governance, 18: 315–345.
  • Von Koch, C., Nilsson, O., Jönsson, M., and Jonnergaard, K. (2013) ‘The interaction between country-level and firm-level corporate governance’ International Journal of Business and Social Science, 4: 78–92.
  • Wrbka, S., Uytsel, S., and Siems, M. (eds.) (2012) Collective Actions: Enhancing Access to Justice and Reconciling Multilayer Interests? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  • Xu, W. (2013) ‘Asymmetric information, minority shareholder protection and firms’ propensity to issue external equity’, working paper.
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