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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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What Comes to Mind
Nicola Gennaioli,Andrei Shleifer +1 more
TL;DR: A model of judgment under uncertainty is presented, in which an agent combines data received from the external world with information retrieved from memory to evaluate a hypothesis, which can account for some of the evidence on heuristics and biases presented by Kahneman and Tversky.
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Government in transition
TL;DR: The authors argue that the lack of turnover of old communist politicians, and the creation of inappropriate electoral and fiscal incentives for these politicians, may account for the poor performance of the Russian government, and suggest some strategies for improving the situation.
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Coarse Thinking and Persuasion
TL;DR: The authors present a model of uninformative persuasion in which individuals "think coarsely" where they group situations into categories and apply the same model of inference to all situations within a category.
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Takeovers in the '60s and the '80s: Evidence and Implications
Andrei Shleifer,Robert W. Vishny +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the evidence on the two takeover waves of the 1960s and 1980s and discuss the implications of this evidence for corporate strategy, agency theory, capital market efficiency, and antitrust policy.
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Does Competition Destroy Ethical Behavior
TL;DR: This paper argued that competition might be good for ethical behavior in the long run, because it promotes growth and raises incomes, and higher incomes raise the willingness to pay for ethical behaviour, but may also change what people believe to be ethical for the better.