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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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Federalism with and Without Political Centralization. China Versus Russia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the answer lies in the degree of political centralization present in China, but not in Russia, and that the central government has been in a strong position both to reward and punish local administrations, reducing both the risk of local capture and the scope of competition for rents.
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Law and Finance After a Decade of Research
TL;DR: The authors argued that the historical origin of a country's laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as well as with economic outcomes, and presented a unified interpretation of the evidence.
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Breach of Trust in Hostile Takeovers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that most of the increase in the combined value of the target and the acquirer is likely to come from stakeholder wealth losses, such as declines in value of subcontractors' firm-specific capital or employees' human capital.
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The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider three broad views of the role of informal firms in economic development and find that informal firms are small and extremely unproductive, compared even to the small formal firms and especially relative to the larger formal firms.
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Salience Theory of Judicial Decisions
TL;DR: The authors presented a model of judicial decision making in which the judge overweights the salient facts of the case and the context of the judicial decision, which is comparative by nature, shapes which aspects of a case stand out and draw the judge’s attention.