This table presents the average coefficients and time-series standard errors for 112 cross-sectional regressions for each month from September 1990 to December 1999. The dependent variable is the stock return for month t. The results are presented using both raw and industry-adjusted returns, with industry adjustments done using the 48 industries of Fama and French [1997]. The first and second columns include all firms with data for all right-hand side variables and use G, the Governance index, as an independent variable. In the third and fourth columns, the sample is restricted to firms in either the Democracy (G ^ 5)or Dictatorship (G ^ 14) Portfolios, and we use the independent variable, Democracy Portfolio, a dummy variable that equals 1 when the firm is in the Democracy Portfolio and 0 otherwise. In the fifth and sixth columns, we again include all firms with data for each explanatory variable and use the subindices, Delay, Protection, Voting, Other, and State as regressors. The calculation of G and the subindices is described in Section II. Definitions for all other explanatory variables are provided in Appendix 2. All regressions are estimated with weighted least squares where all variables are weighted by market value at the end of month t - 1. ignificance at the 5 percent and 1 percent levels is indicated by * and **, respectively.