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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 Curley Effect
TL;DR: This article presented a model of the Curley effect, in which inefficient redistributive policies are sought not by interest groups protecting their rents, but by incumbent politicians trying to shape the electorate through emigration of their opponents or reinforcement of class identities.
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Letter Grading Government Efficiency
Alberto Chong,Rafael La Porta,Rafael La Porta,Florencio Lopez de Silanes,Florencio Lopez de Silanes,Andrei Shleifer,Andrei Shleifer +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors sent letters to non-existent business addresses in 159 countries (10 per country) and measured whether they come back to the return address in the US and how long it takes.
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Litigation and Regulation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that regulatory preemption of litigation may be efficient when social returns to activity exceed the expected harm that could result from a firm taking too few precautions, assuming that both courts and regulators make errors in assessing whether it is efficient for a given firm to take precautions.
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A Normal Country
TL;DR: In contrast to the common image, by the late 1990s Russia had become a typical middle-income capitalist democracy as mentioned in this paper, and a consensus in the US circa 2000 viewed Russia as a disastrous and threatening failure.
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Financial Innovation and Financial Fragility
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a standard model of financial innovation, in which intermediaries engineer securities with cash flows that investors seek, but modify two assumptions: first, investors neglect certain unlikely risks.