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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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The Quality of Government
Andrei Shleifer,Robert W. Vishny +1 more
TL;DR: This article investigated empirically the determinants of the quality of governments in a large cross-section of countries and found that countries that are poor, close to the equator, ethnolinguistically heterogeneous, use French or socialist laws, or have high proportions of Catholics or Muslims exhibit inferior government performance.
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Extreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States
Paul A. Gompers,Sanjai Bhagat,Tarun Chordia,John C. Coates,John E. Core,Rudi Fahlenbrach,Martin Lipton,Brett McDonnell,David S. Scharfstein,Henri Servaes,Jay Shanken,Andrei Shleifer,Ravi P. Singh +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors construct and analyze a comprehensive list of dual-class firms in the United States and use this list to investigate the relationship between insider ownership and firm value, finding strong evidence that firm value is increasing in insiders' cash-flow rights and decreasing in insider voting rights.
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Asset Fire Sales and Credit Easing
TL;DR: In a January 2009 lecture on the financial crisis, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke advocated a new Fed policy of credit easing, defined as a combination of lending to financial institutions, providing liquidity directly to key credit markets, and buying of long term securities as discussed by the authors.
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What comes to mind
Nicola Gennaioli,Andrei Shleifer +1 more
TL;DR: This paper presented a model of judgment under uncertainty, in which an agent combines data received from the external world with information retrieved from memory to evaluate a hypothesis, focusing on what comes to mind immediately, as the agent makes quick, intuitive evaluations.
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The Evolution of a Legal Rule
TL;DR: In this article, a dataset of 465 state-court appellate decisions involving the application of the economic loss rule in construction disputes was created and tracked over a period from 1970 to 2005.