The stock market results for measures of investor protection are more dependent on outliers than is the case for our exchange rate results. In particular, if we drop Indonesia, the rule of law result is unchanged, but corruption and the corporate governance variable lose their significance. However, it should be kept in mind that we are missing data on two countries in all the stock market regressions. Russia, a country with very weak investor protection, had a large fall in its stock market (on to order of Indonesia) but joined the IFC index only in November 1997, so we do not have the requisite stock market information. Russia’s IFC Investable Index fell 84.2% in 1998 (IFC, 1999); the change in this index for 1997 is not available. The Czech Republic has struggled to establish investor protection, but only by 1997 was beginning to institute a reasonable set of safeguards (Glaeser et al., 2001). Its stock market (measured by the IFC’s Investable Index) fell 22% in 1997 and only 7.3% in 1998. If Russia and the Czech Republic were included, our results would be stronger and the dependence on Indonesia reduced.