Equity regulation: Why Poland wins

    Headline: Equity regulation: Why Poland wins Source: Euromoney Date: June 2000 Author: James Smalhout Why can Polish companies raise $1 billion a year by floating new stock in Warsaw while their counterparts in Prague come up with zilch? Andrei Shleifer of Harvard University thinks he has the answer and presented some of his […]

    Headline: Equity regulation: Why Poland wins
Source: Euromoney
Date: June 2000
Author: James Smalhout

Why can Polish companies raise $1 billion a year by floating new stock in Warsaw while their counterparts in Prague come up with zilch? Andrei Shleifer of Harvard University thinks he has the answer and presented some of his latest research, joint work with Edward Glaeser and Simon Johnson, at the US Federal Reserve last month.

The answer, according to Shleifer, relates to quite different approaches to financial market regulation.






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