Financial Development and Structure 1960-2010

Aruba, Afghanistan, Angola...and 192 more, 1960 - 2010

Reference ID

WLD_1960-2010_FDS_v02_M

Producer(s)

Thorsten Beck and Asli Demirguc-Kunt (World Bank), Ross Eric Levine (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota)

Metadata

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Sep 05, 2014

Last modified

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Legal reserve (reserve)

Data file: request8095

Overview

Valid: 49

Invalid: 57

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 1

Mean: 0.155

Standard deviation: 0.2

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 810

End: 810

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 1

Format: Numeric

Description

Universe

1980-1995

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

It is the minimum percentage of total share capital mandated by Corporate Law to avoid the dissolution of an existing firm. It takes a value of zero for countries without such restriction.

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