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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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Population and Regulation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model of efficient regulation along the lines of Demsetz (1967) and find that higher population U.S. states have more pages of legislation and adopt particular laws earlier.
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The Guarantees of Freedom
TL;DR: The authors found that the English institutions of judicial independence and checks and balances are strong predictors of economic freedom, but not of political freedom, and that judicial independence explains half of the positive effect of common law legal origin on measures of economic and political freedom.
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Overruling and the Instability of Law
Nicola Gennaioli,Andrei Shleifer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the evolution of common law under overruling, a system of precedent change in which appellate courts replace existing legal rules with new ones, and they find that overruling leads to unstable legal rules that rarely converge to efficiency.
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Peter Bauer and the Failure of Foreign Aid
Andrei Shleifer,Andrei Shleifer +1 more
TL;DR: Bauer was one of the greatest development economists in history as mentioned in this paper, who was an advocate of property rights protection and free trade before these ideas became commonplace, and he appreciated before others did the crucial roles of entrepreneurship and trade in development, recognizing that the poor like the rich should have the right to choose the number of children they have, and that population growth will anyhow slow down once they become richer.
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The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
TL;DR: This paper 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 they summarized this evidence and attempted a unified interpretation.