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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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Coase and corporate governance in latin america
Simon Johnson,Andrei Shleifer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the Coasian idea that private contracts can attain efficient efficiency in international contracts and make it easier for the private sector to write its own efficient contracts.
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The Unofficial Economy in Africa
Rafael La Porta,Andrei Shleifer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the productivity of informal firms (those that are not registered with the government) in 24 African countries using field work and World Bank firm level data, and find that productivity jumps sharply if they compare small formal firms to informal firms, and rises rapidly with the size of formal firms.
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Disclosure by Politicians
Simeon Djankov,Simeon Djankov,Rafael La Porta,Rafael La Porta,Florencio Lopez de Silanes,Florencio Lopez de Silanes,Andrei Shleifer,Andrei Shleifer +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors collected data on the rules and practices of financial and conflict disclosure by politicians in 175 countries and found that disclosure is correlated with lower perceived corruption when it is public, when it identifies sources of income and conflicts of interest, and when a country is a democracy.
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Pervasive Shortages Under Socialism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a new theory of pervasive shortages under socialism, based on the assumption that the planners are self-interested, meaning that it is in their interest to create shortages of output and to collect bribes from the rationed consumers.
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The Guarantees of Freedom
Rafael La Porta,Rafael La Porta,Florencio Lopez de Silanes,Florencio Lopez de Silanes,Cristian Pop-Eleches,Andrei Shleifer,Andrei Shleifer +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors created a data base of constitutional rules in 71 countries that reflect these institutions of English and American freedom, and ask whether these rules predict economic and political freedom in a cross-section of countries.