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Andrei Shleifer
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 519
Citations - 286543
Andrei Shleifer is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Government & Shareholder. The author has an hindex of 171, co-authored 514 publications receiving 271880 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrei Shleifer include National Bureau of Economic Research & University of Chicago.
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Courts: the Lex Mundi Project
TL;DR: In this article, the exact procedures used by litigants and courts to evict a tenant for non-payment of rent and to collect a bounced check were measured and described by Lex Mundi member law firms in 109 countries.
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Hostile Takeovers in the 1980s: The Return to Corporate Specialization
TL;DR: The authors examined the sample of all 62 hostile takeover contests between 1984 and 1986 that involved a purchase price of $50 million or more and found that 50 targets were acquired and 12 remained independent.
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Why does democracy need education
TL;DR: This paper showed that education and democracy are highly correlated and empirically and then model a causal mechanism explaining this correlation, which increases the likelihood of successful democratic revolutions against dictatorships, and reduces that of successful anti-democratic coups.
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Salience and Consumer Choice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a theory of context-dependent choice in which a consumer's attention is drawn to salient attributes of goods, such as quality or price, and apply the model to study discounts and sales, and to explain demand for low deductible insurance.
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The Regulation of Labor
Juan Carlos Botero,Simeon Djankov,Simeon Djankov,Rafael La Porta,Rafael La Porta,Florencio Lopez de Silanes,Florencio Lopez de Silanes,Andrei Shleifer,Andrei Shleifer +8 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security laws in 85 countries and found that richer countries regulate labor less than poorer countries do, although they have more generous social security systems.