1.
Libertarian Paternalism is Not an Oxymoron
University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 09 May 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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11,090
2.
Competition and Crisis in Mortgage Securitization
Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 88, p.213, (2013)
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Competition and Crisis in Mortgage Securitization
Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 88, p.213, (2013)
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013
Downloads
10,286
Competition and Crisis in Mortgage Securitization
Canadian Law & Economics Association Conference, September 2011
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 02 Oct 2011
Last Revised: 11 Jan 2012
Downloads
814
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10,286
3.
Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births
Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 254
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 16 May 2001
Working Paper Series
Crime Prevention Research Center and Crime Prevention Research Center
There are 2 versions of this paper
Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births
Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 254
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 16 May 2001
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7,914
Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births
Economic Inquiry, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 304-324, April 2007
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 09 Mar 2007
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18
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7,914
4.
Foreign Direct Investment in India: A Critical Analysis of FDI from 1991-2005
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 21 Oct 2005
Working Paper Series
Centre for Civil Society
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5,883
5.
Origin of the Theory of Agency: An Account By One of the Theory's Originators
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 10 Oct 2007
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Pittsburgh
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5,603
6.
Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 13 Nov 2014
Last Revised: 11 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business
Downloads
5,447
7.
How Much Should We Trust the Dictator's GDP Growth Estimates?
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 27 Dec 2017
Last Revised: 11 Aug 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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4,885
8.
The Failure of Good Intentions: The WorldCom Fraud and the Collapse of American Telecommunications After Deregulation
Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 207-267, 2003
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 01 Oct 2002
Last Revised: 22 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Criterion Economics, L.L.C.
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4,837
9.
How to Restructure Venezuelan Debt (¿Cómo restructurar la deuda venezolana?)
Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-52
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 27 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 22 Aug 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Center for Contract and Economic Organization and Duke University School of Law
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4,675
10.
China’s Social Credit Systems and Public Opinion: Explaining High Levels of Approval
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 22 Aug 2018
Last Revised: 25 Dec 2018
Working Paper Series
Free University of Berlin (FUB)
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3,576
11.
The New Comparative Economics
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 2002; Yale SOM Working Paper No. ES-24; World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3054
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 21 Dec 2004
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics, SKEMA Business School, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
There are 3 versions of this paper
The New Comparative Economics
Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 2002; Yale SOM Working Paper No. ES-24; World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3054
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 21 Dec 2004
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2,946
The New Comparative Economics
NBER Working Paper No. w9608
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 05 Apr 2003
Last Revised: 17 Jun 2003
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123
The New Comparative Economics
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3882
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 17 Jun 2003
Downloads
13
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2,946
12.
The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might Be Right
University of Virginia Law School, Legal Studies Working Paper No. 00-8
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 31 Jan 2000
Working Paper Series
University of Virginia School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might Be Right
University of Virginia Law School, Legal Studies Working Paper No. 00-8
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 31 Jan 2000
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2,835
The Common Law and Economic Growth: Hayek Might Be Right
Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 503-525, June 2001
Posted: 12 Nov 2001
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2,835
13.
Hard Law & Soft Law in International Taxation
Wisconsin International Law Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer 2007, Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1049
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 01 Jun 2007
Accepted Paper Series
McGill University - Faculty of Law
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2,544
14.
The Leaky Leviathan: Why the Government Condemns and Condones Unlawful Disclosures of Information
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 127, pp. 512-635, 2013
Number of pages: 124
Posted: 25 Feb 2013
Last Revised: 24 Sep 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia University - Law School
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2,379
15.
Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 25 Oct 1999
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California - Management and Organization Department
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2,198
16.
Sovereign Credit Risk in the Euro Zone
World Economics, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2012
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 17 Apr 2011
Last Revised: 09 Jan 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University
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2,155
17.
Tax Systems in the World: An Empirical Investigation into the Importance of Tax Bases, Collection Costs, and Political Regime
Carleton Economic Working Paper No. 01-03, International Tax and Public Finance, Vol. 13, 2006
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 17 Aug 2001
Last Revised: 18 Aug 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration - Department of Economics and Carleton University - School of Public Policy and Administration
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2,127
18.
Nudge and the Manipulation of Choice. A Framework for the Responsible Use of Nudge Approach to Behaviour Change in Public Policy
Hansen, Pelle G. and Jespersen, Andreas M., Nudge and the Manipulation of Choice: A Framework for the Responsible Use of the Nudge Approach to Behaviour Change in Public Policy, European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2013 (1), p.3-28
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 05 Feb 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Roskilde University - Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies and Roskilde University - Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies
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1,963
19.
The Euro Area Crisis: Politics Over Economics
MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5091-14
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 11 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Euro Area Crisis: Politics Over Economics
MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5091-14
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 11 Jun 2014
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1,953
The Euro Area Crisis: Politics Over Economics
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10033
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 25 Sep 2014
Downloads
3
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1,953
20.
Distributed Security: A New Model of Law Enforcement
John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 14 Nov 2005
Accepted Paper Series
University of Dayton - School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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1,951
21.
Next Generation Law: Data Driven Governance and Accountability Based Regulatory Systems in the West, and Social Credit Regimes in China
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 30 Jul 2018
Last Revised: 15 Oct 2018
Working Paper Series
The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) – Penn State Law
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1,930
22.
Does Direct Democracy Hurt Immigrant Minorities? Evidence from Naturalization Decisions in Switzerland
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 16 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 18 Jul 2015
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Political Science and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Does Direct Democracy Hurt Immigrant Minorities? Evidence from Naturalization Decisions in Switzerland
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 16 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 18 Jul 2015
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1,924
Does Direct Democracy Hurt Immigrant Minorities? Evidence from Naturalization Decisions in Switzerland
American Journal of Political Science, 2015, Forthcoming, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 14-38
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 01 Oct 2014
Last Revised: 06 Dec 2015
Downloads
339
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1,924
23.
Can Soft Law Bodies be Effective? Soft Systemic Risk Oversight Bodies and the Special Case of the European Systemic Risk Board
University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 36/2011
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 13 Sep 2010
Last Revised: 28 Jun 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law and University of Zurich
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1,914
24.
The Play's the Thing: A Theory of Taxing Virtual Worlds
Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2007
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 18 Apr 2007
Last Revised: 03 Aug 2014
Working Paper Series
Texas Tech University School of Law
Downloads
1,903
25.
The Three Goals of Taxation
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 12 Sep 2005
Working Paper Series
University of Michigan Law School
There are 2 versions of this paper
Downloads
1,888
26.
Taxation, Political Accountability, and Foreign Aid: Lessons from Somaliland
Journal of Development Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 08 Jun 2010
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt Center for Study of Democratic Institutions
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1,867
27.
Corruption Around the World: Causes, Consequences, Scope, and Cures
IMF Working Paper No. 98/63
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Working Paper Series
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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1,839
28.
Financial Reporting Incentives for Conservative Accounting: The Influence of Legal and Political Institutions
Journal of Accounting and Economics Vol. 42 (October 2006), pp. 107-48.
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 19 Jan 2005
Last Revised: 06 Sep 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads
1,836
29.
Law, Politics, and Finance
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2585
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 25 May 2001
Working Paper Series
City University London - Sir John Cass Business School, World Bank - Development Research Group and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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1,832
30.
The Ethiopian Developmental State and Its Challenges
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 23 Oct 2014
Working Paper Series
Tampere University
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1,792
31.
A History of Online Gatekeeping
Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 19, No. 2, p. 253, 2006, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 29/2006, Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2006-2
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 02 Jun 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Downloads
1,717
32.
Sovereignty, Taxation, and Social Contract
Minnesota Journal of International Law, Vol. 18, Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1063
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 29 Aug 2008
Accepted Paper Series
McGill University - Faculty of Law
Downloads
1,706
33.
Corruption, Public Finances, and the Unofficial Economy
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2169
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 25 Feb 2000
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Entrepreneurship Center, Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
1,703
34.
Government Size and Growth: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence
IFN Working Paper No. 858
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 23 Jan 2011
Last Revised: 13 Apr 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Government Size and Growth: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence
IFN Working Paper No. 858
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 23 Jan 2011
Last Revised: 13 Apr 2019
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1,701
Government Size and Growth: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence
Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 25, Issue 5, pp. 872-897, 2011
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 18 Oct 2011
Downloads
1
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1,701
35.
Of Subprimes and Subsidies: The Political Economy of the Financial Crisis
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 22 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 11 Nov 2008
Working Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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1,693
36.
Transparenting Transparency: Initial Empirics and Policy Applications
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 29 Sep 2005
Working Paper Series
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and World Bank - World Bank Institute (WBI)
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1,657
37.
Unemployment and the Eurozone Crisis: The State of Social Welfare in the Balkans
South-East Europe Review, Vol. 4, pp. 425-431, 2012
Posted: 04 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Prishtina and University of Messina
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1,626
38.
Sham Constitutions
101 California Law Review 863 (2013), Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-09-03, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-55
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 23 Jan 2012
Last Revised: 01 Jul 2013
Accepted Paper Series
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads
1,603
39.
Paris Agreement and Consensus to Address Climate Challenge
ASIL INSIGHT, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 03 Jan 2016
Last Revised: 11 Jan 2016
Accepted Paper Series
BurlesonInstitute.org
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1,582
40.
The Objects of the Constitution
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 63, No. 5, 2011, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-49
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 20 May 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
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1,552
41.
The Euro Area Crisis Five Years After the Original Sin
MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5147-15
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 21 Oct 2015
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads
1,503
42.
The NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program
Harvard Journal on Legislation, Vol. 43, No. 2, p. 517, 2006
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 11 Jun 2007
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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1,497
43.
The Great Depression(s) of 1929-1933 and 2007-2009? Parallels, Differences and Policy Lessons
Hungarian Academy of Science MTA-ELTE Crisis History Working Paper No. 2
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 31 May 2015
Last Revised: 04 Jul 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Vienna - Department of Economic and Social History and University of Vienna
Downloads
1,470
44.
The Great Danes: Cultural Values and Neoliberal Reforms
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 25 Jun 2010
Working Paper Series
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Downloads
1,464
45.
Anti-Corruption: A Big-Bang Theory
QoG Working Paper No. 2007:3
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 06 Feb 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Gothenburg
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1,442
46.
Born in the U.S.A.? Rethinking Birthright Citizenship in the Wake of 9/11
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 01 Jun 2006
Working Paper Series
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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1,435
47.
The Cyprus Debt: Perfect Crisis and a Way Forward
Cyprus Economic Policy Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 3-45 (2013)
Posted: 16 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 03 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Cyprus
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1,368
48.
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)
Downloads
1,363
49.
Cost-Benefit Analysis Versus the Precautionary Principle: Beyond Cass Sunstein's Laws of Fear
University of Illinois Law Review, p. 1037, 2006
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 22 Oct 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Downloads
1,352
50.
Coming to Terms with Secret Law
7 Harvard National Security Journal 241 (2015), Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 321
Number of pages: 150
Posted: 08 Nov 2015
Last Revised: 08 Apr 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Ohio State University (OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law
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1,339
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