1.
Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 11 May 2022
Working Paper Series
Microsoft Research, Flashbots Ltd. and Ethereum Foundation
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48,190
2.
Measuring the Rule of Law
Number of pages: 120
Posted: 01 Dec 2011
Working Paper Series
Pontifica Universidad Javeriana Law School and The World Justice Project
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6,769
3.
Elite Quality Report 2020: 32 Country Scores and Global Rank
Number of pages: 100
Posted: 21 Aug 2020
Last Revised: 31 Aug 2020
Working Paper Series
University of St. Gallen - SoM: School of Management and University of St. Gallen
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5,035
4.
Elite Quality Report 2021: Country Scores and Global Rankings
Number of pages: 324
Posted: 14 May 2021
Last Revised: 16 Apr 2022
Working Paper Series
University of St. Gallen - SoM: School of Management and University of St. Gallen
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3,580
5.
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID-19
Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 620
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 10 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy and Columbia Law School
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2,827
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Elite Quality Report 2022: Country Scores and Global Rankings
Zurich: Seismo. 2022 doi: 10.33058/ seismo.30769.0001
Number of pages: 323
Posted: 24 Apr 2022
Last Revised: 09 Jun 2022
Accepted Paper Series
University of St. Gallen - SoM: School of Management and University of St. Gallen
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2,030
7.
Verifying Identity as a Social Intersection
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 20 May 2019
Working Paper Series
Microsoft Research, Stanford University - Department of Economics and Microsoft Research
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1,974
8.
'Law and Finance' Revisited
Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 12
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 21 Feb 2008
Last Revised: 30 Jul 2009
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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1,944
9.
An Introduction to the Theories of Institutional Change
Journal of Economics Library, vol. 5, n. 4, pp. 337-344, 2018, DOI/10.1453/jel.v5i4.1788
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 25 Jan 2019
Accepted Paper Series
National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
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1,905
10.
The Rise and Fall of the Market Economy
Review of Islamic Economics, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2010, pp. 123-155
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 06 Sep 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Al-Nafi
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1,900
11.
A Dynamic Perspective on Next-Generation Offshoring: The Global Sourcing of Science and Engineering Talent
Academy of Management Perspectives, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 35-54, 2008
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 10 Nov 2008
Last Revised: 18 Apr 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Sussex Business School, University of Manchester and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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1,885
12.
The Impact of Business Regulatory Reforms on Economic Growth
Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 26 (3), pp. 285-307
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 26 May 2012
Last Revised: 14 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University
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1,883
13.
European Banking Union: Imperfect, But It Can Work
University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 30/2014
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 19 Apr 2014
Last Revised: 16 Aug 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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1,781
14.
On the Insignificance And/Or Endogeneity of La Porta Et Al.'s 'Anti-Director Rights Index' Under Consistent Coding
Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 7, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 67/2006
Number of pages: 103
Posted: 04 Apr 2006
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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1,594
15.
Sustainable Sourcing in the Food Industry: Global Challenges and Practices
Moderne Ernaehrung Heute, Official Journal of the Food Chemistry Institute of the Association of the German Confectionery Industry, Vol. 4, p. 1-9, October 2010
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 19 Sep 2010
Last Revised: 26 Apr 2015
Accepted Paper Series
International Trade Centre (UN/WTO), University of Sussex Business School and University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
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1,582
16.
Determinants of Nationalization in the Oil Sector: A Theory and Evidence from Panel Data
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 27 (2): 301-323, 2011.
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 07 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 22 Oct 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Sciences Po, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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1,518
17.
Explaining Welfare State Survival: The Role of Economic Freedom and Globalization
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 27 Apr 2006
Working Paper Series
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)Lund University - Department of Economics
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1,425
18.
Investor-State Dispute Settlement: A Scoping Paper for the Investment Policy Community
OECD Working Paper No. 2012/3
Number of pages: 102
Posted: 01 Feb 2013
Working Paper Series
Investment Division, OECD and Investment Division, OECD
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1,424
19.
Functioning of Institute of the Parties’ Competition in Ukraine
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 13 Nov 2010
Working Paper Series
Vinnitsia National Technical University (VNTU)Independent Research Group “Analytics in Economics and Security” and Vinnitsa National Technical University (VNTU)
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1,412
20.
Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Polluter Pays Principle in India
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 17 Jan 2019
Working Paper Series
Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University
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1,261
21.
Political Connections and Preferential Access to Finance: The Role of Campaign Contributions
Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 88, No. 3, AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 166/2007
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 21 Mar 2007
Accepted Paper Series
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), World Bank - Finance & Markets Global Practice and European Central Bank (ECB)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Political Connections and Preferential Access to Finance: The Role of Campaign Contributions
Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 88, No. 3, AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 166/2007
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 21 Mar 2007
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1,182
Political Connections and Preferential Access to Finance: The Role of Campaign Contributions
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 143/2007, Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 08 Dec 2006
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55
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1,182
22.
Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 03 Jan 2018
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2021
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
There are 3 versions of this paper
Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 03 Jan 2018
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2021
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1,094
Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence
NBER Working Paper No. w24451
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 02 Apr 2018
Last Revised: 24 Apr 2022
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53
Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13025
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 03 Jul 2018
Downloads
1
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1,094
23.
Investors vs. Greece: The Greek 'Haircut' and Investor Arbitration Under BIT's
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 14 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 15 May 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Westminster - School of Law
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1,073
24.
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 14-18
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 14 Dec 2014
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Harvard University - Department of Government
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 14-18
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 14 Dec 2014
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1,072
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
NBER Working Paper No. w20766
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 22 Dec 2014
Last Revised: 30 Mar 2022
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63
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1,072
25.
Explaining Threshold Effects of Globalization on Poverty: An Institutional Perspective
UNU-WIDER Research Paper No. 2005/53
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 20 Sep 2006
Working Paper Series
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London, department of economics
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1,020
26.
Blockchain's Struggle to Deliver Impersonal Exchange
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, 2018, 19, 55-105
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 25 Jan 2017
Last Revised: 19 Jan 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Pompeu Fabra University - Department of Economics and Business
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966
27.
The Governance of Blockchain Dispute Resolution
Allen, DWE, Lane, AM and Poblet, M. 2019. The Governance of Blockchain Dispute Resolution, Harvard Negotiation Law Review, vol. 25, pp. 75-101
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 06 Mar 2019
Last Revised: 24 Aug 2020
Accepted Paper Series
RMIT University, RMIT University and RMIT University
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950
28.
European Banking Union and the EU Single Financial Market: More Differentiated Integration, or Disintegration?
University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 29/2014
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 20 Apr 2014
Last Revised: 03 Apr 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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935
29.
Is it Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 26 Jan 2011
Last Revised: 22 Mar 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Is it Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 26 Jan 2011
Last Revised: 22 Mar 2011
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891
Is it Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process
NBER Working Paper No. w16765
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 07 Feb 2011
Last Revised: 24 Apr 2022
Downloads
82
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891
30.
Do CEOs Affect Employees' Political Choices
BAFFI CAREFIN Centre Research Paper No. 2017-50, Forthcoming in Review of Financial Studies
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 18 Apr 2017
Last Revised: 03 May 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Arizona State University, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and Boston College - Department of Finance
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876
31.
European Union of Nuts
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 11 Dec 2013
Working Paper Series
Vistula University
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823
32.
The Emergence of a Standards Market: Multiplicity of Sustainability Standards in the Global Coffee Industry
Organization Studies, 33 (5/6), pp. 789-812, 2012
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 10 Dec 2011
Last Revised: 24 Jul 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Warwick - Warwick Business School, University of Sussex Business School and International Trade Centre (UN/WTO)
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815
33.
The Scale of Entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern History: Inhibitive Roles of Islamic Institutions
Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper No. 10
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 11 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 30 Sep 2009
Working Paper Series
Duke University - Department of Economics
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815
34.
A Counter-Narrative to Carbon Supremacy: Do Leaders Who Give Up Flying Because of Climate Change Influence the Attitudes and Behaviour of Others?
Number of pages: 99
Posted: 07 Dec 2018
Working Paper Series
Cardiff University - School of Psychology
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781
35.
The Culture of Corruption across Generations: An Empirical Study of Bribery Attitudes and Behavior
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 29 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 06 Sep 2017
Working Paper Series
ITAM
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764
36.
Differentiation in the Paris Agreement
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 22 Aug 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Oslo and Division of Climate Change. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil
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756
37.
Sustainability in the Cocoa Sector - Review, Challenges and Approaches
Moderne Ernaehrung Heute, Official Journal of the Food Chemistry Institute of the Association of the German Confectionery Industry, p. 1-27, February 2012
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 18 Apr 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Lebensmittelchemisches Institut (LCI) des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Süßwarenindustrie (BDSI, University of Warwick - Warwick Business School, International Trade Centre (UN/WTO) and University of Sussex Business School
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753
38.
The Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty? Evidence from British Commutations During World War I
Number of pages: 140
Posted: 01 Aug 2016
Last Revised: 10 Feb 2020
Working Paper Series
Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse School of Economics, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France
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714
39.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): Feasibility and the Need for an Assessment of India's Role
SADF Comment, South Asia Democratic Forum (SADF) No. 19
Number of pages: 4
Posted: 07 Sep 2016
Accepted Paper Series
South Asia Democratic Forum (SADF)
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707
40.
National Contexts Matter: The Co-Evolution of Sustainability Standards in Global Value Chains
Ecological Economics, Vol. 83, pp. 197-209, 2012
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 29 Nov 2011
Last Revised: 01 Mar 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Sussex Business School, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), International Trade Centre (UN/WTO) and University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
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671
41.
The Tocqueville Paradox: When Does Reform Provoke Rebellion?
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 16 Jul 2018
Last Revised: 05 Nov 2018
Working Paper Series
Johns Hopkins SAIS and University of Chicago
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663
42.
Growing Up Without Finance
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), 134 (3), December 2019, pp. 591-616., 7th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference 2016
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 14 Jul 2016
Last Revised: 10 Mar 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Iowa State University - Department of Finance, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and Boston College - Department of Finance
Downloads
652
43.
Anarchy, Blockchain and Utopia: A Theory of Political-Socioeconomic Systems Organised using Blockchain
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 05 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
Evidn
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650
44.
Vietnam's Political Economy: A Discussion on the 1986-2016 Period
CEB-ULB WP N° 14/010 (2014)
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 23 May 2014
Working Paper Series
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
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649
45.
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Civil-Military Relations and Democracy in Pakistan
SADF Working Paper Series, South Asia Democratic Forum (SADF), WP, No. 2, Brussels, Belgium. ISSN 2506-8199
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 14 Sep 2016
Accepted Paper Series
South Asia Democratic Forum (SADF)
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642
46.
Governance of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Journal of Modern Accounting and Auditing, Vol. 15, No. 8, 406-411, 2019
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 31 Mar 2020
Accepted Paper Series
School of Business FHNW and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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628
47.
Operations of Foreign Exchange Department of a Commercial Bank
International Trade eJournal, Vol 11 Issue 166
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 14 Oct 2019
Last Revised: 27 Nov 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Legal Profession
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620
48.
The Complementarity Between Community and Government in Enforcing Norms and Contracts, and Their Interaction with Religion and Corruption
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Research Paper No. 18-07
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 17 Apr 2018
Last Revised: 27 Jul 2021
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Economics and Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School
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616
49.
Regulation and the Role of Law in Economic Crisis
European Business Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 4, 2010
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 26 Jun 2009
Last Revised: 27 Nov 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Westminster - School of Law
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609
50.
Abuse of Power: The CFPB and Ocwen Financial Corp
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 24 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Whalen Global Advisors LLC
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598
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