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rafael laporta
Researcher at Brown University
Publications - 3
Citations - 625
rafael laporta is an academic researcher from Brown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Multinational corporation & Productivity. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications receiving 625 citations.
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Human capital and regional development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the determinants of regional development using a newly constructed database of 1569 sub-national regions from 110 countries covering 74 percent of the world's surface and 96 percent of its GDP.
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Informality and Development
rafael laporta,Andrei Shleifer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors establish five facts about the informal economy in developing countries: it is huge, reaching about half of the total in the poorest countries, it has extremely low productivity compared to the formal economy, informal firms are typically small, inefficient, and run by poorly educated entrepreneurs.
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Trust and Insurance Contracts
Nicola Gennaioli,rafael laporta,Florencio Lopez de Silanes,Florencio Lopez de Silanes,Andrei Shleifer,Andrei Shleifer +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assemble and analyze a new data set of homeowner insurance claims from 28 independently operated country subsidiaries of a multinational insurance company and characterize equilibrium insurance contracts, and show how they depend on the quality of the legal system and the level of trust.