1.
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 26 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 11 Jun 2020
Working Paper Series
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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74,617
2.
Libertarian Paternalism is Not an Oxymoron
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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11,253
3.
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
10,399
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
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821
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10,399
4.
Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births
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
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 16 May 2001
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7,980
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
Downloads
19
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7,980
5.
The Benefits and Costs of Using Social Distancing to Flatten the Curve for COVID-19
Forthcoming Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 27 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 14 Apr 2020
Accepted Paper Series
University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming - College of Business - Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming and University of Wyoming
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7,875
6.
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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6,089
7.
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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6,071
8.
Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism
Mukherjee, Anita. 2020. "Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism", American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 13 Nov 2014
Last Revised: 12 Aug 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Wisconsin School of Business
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5,791
9.
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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5,252
10.
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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4,855
11.
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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4,770
12.
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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4,108
13.
The New Comparative Economics
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
NBER Working Paper No. w9608
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 05 Apr 2003
Last Revised: 17 Jun 2003
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124
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2,961
14.
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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2,897
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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2,897
15.
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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2,607
16.
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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2,413
17.
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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2,243
18.
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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2,205
19.
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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2,183
20.
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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2,153
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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2,043
22.
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
Downloads
1,960
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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1,960
23.
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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1,959
24.
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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1,958
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
344
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1,958
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
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1,954
26.
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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1,948
27.
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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1,946
28.
Early Evidence on Social Distancing in Response to COVID-19 in the United States
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 06 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 25 Jun 2020
Working Paper Series
UNC Greensboro
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1,928
29.
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
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1,926
30.
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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1,904
31.
The Ethiopian Developmental State and Its Challenges
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 23 Oct 2014
Working Paper Series
Tampere University
Downloads
1,901
32.
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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1,895
33.
A Theoretical Role for Government in the Financial Markets
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 02 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 08 Mar 2010
Working Paper Series
University of North Florida
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1,848
34.
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
1,847
35.
Law, Politics, and Finance
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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1,841
36.
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
1,764
37.
Understanding the Heterogeneity of Adverse COVID-19 Outcomes: The Role of Poor Quality of Air and Lockdown Decisions
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 10 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 06 May 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Rome Tor Vergata - Faculty of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Turin - Department of Economics and Statistics and UCL Institute for Global Health
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1,747
38.
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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1,740
39.
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
1,722
40.
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
Downloads
1,710
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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1,710
41.
Corruption, Public Finances, and the Unofficial Economy
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
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1,709
42.
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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1,699
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
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1,672
44.
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
1,651
45.
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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1,643
46.
Toward Fair and Sustainable Capitalism: A Comprehensive Proposal to Help American Workers, Restore Fair Gainsharing between Employees and Shareholders, and Increase American Competitiveness by Reorienting Our Corporate Governance System Toward Sustainable Long-Term Growth and Encouraging Investments in America’s Future
U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 19-39, Harvard John M. Olin Discussion Paper No. 1018
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 11 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
Downloads
1,628
47.
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
Downloads
1,565
48.
Sectoral Effects of Social Distancing
HEC Paris Research Paper No. FIN-2020-1371
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 15 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 07 Jul 2020
Working Paper Series
HEC Paris, Bocconi University - Department of Economics and Bocconi University
Downloads
1,532
49.
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
1,521
50.
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
Downloads
1,511
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