TY - JOUR AU1 - Laeven, Luc AU2 - Woodruff, Christopher AU3 - AB - Luc Laeven and Christopher Woodruff World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3246, March 2004 The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the view of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. Policy Research Working Papers are available online at http://econ.worldbank.org. Laeven is at the World Bank and CEPR, and Woodruff is at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UCSD. The authors thank Franklin Allen, Thorsten Beck, Luis Cabral, Simon Johnson, Ross Levine, Inessa Love, John McMillan, Bernard Yeung and seminar participants at the AEA 2004 annual meetings, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, Pittsburgh University, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), and the University of California at San Diego for helpful comments, Gerardo Leyva and Benito Arciniega for providing the data from TI - The Quality of the Legal System, Firm Ownership, and Firm Size JF - The Review of Economics and Statistics DO - 10.1162/rest.89.4.601 DA - 2007-11-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/the-quality-of-the-legal-system-firm-ownership-and-firm-size-VFAOpChquf DP - DeepDyve ER -