摘要：AbstractThe investor protection and potential solutions for increasing its effectiveness have been subject to many and different approaches in scholarship literature. This study focuses on the empirical analysis of the major characteristics of governance on strength of investor protection. Thus, this paper employed the quantitative empirical analysis technique through the SPSS statistical packaged software, in order to evaluate the contribution of quality of governance to the ensuring the strength of investor protection, for a large sample of world-wide countries. In order to achieve the objective of the paper, a multiple regression analysis was performed from dual perspective, first from the geographical standpoint and second given by the income group classification. The research results confirm that the influence of governance on strength of investor protection cannot be neglected, even if strong differences emerge between different geographical areas and also between various income groups.
