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Safe Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime

Yale Law School, Law & Economics Working Paper No. 237

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 22 May 2000

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John R. Lott Jr. and John E Whitley

Crime Prevention Research Center and Crime Prevention Research Center

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 9,972

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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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John R. Lott Jr. and John E Whitley

Crime Prevention Research Center and Crime Prevention Research Center

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 7,508

3.

Preparing a Referee Report: Guidelines and Perspectives

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 11 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2016

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Jonathan Berk, Campbell R. Harvey and David A. Hirshleifer

Stanford Graduate School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business

Downloads 7,013

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Grocery Bag Bans and Foodborne Illness

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-2

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 04 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2013

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Jonathan Klick and Joshua D. Wright

University of Pennsylvania Law School and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty

Downloads 4,792

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Top Ten Myths of Medicare

The Elder Law Journal, Vol. 20, pp. 1-32, 2012, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS13-02, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 11-28

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2012

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Richard L. Kaplan

University of Illinois College of Law

Downloads 3,529

6.

Measuring Poverty

Princeton Research Program in Development Studies Working Paper

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Jul 2004

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Angus Deaton

Princeton University

Downloads 3,368

7.

Exploring Socionomic Causality in Social Health and Epidemics

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2016

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Alan M. Hall, Alyssa Hayden and Matt Lampert

Socionomics Institute, Socionomics Institute and Socionomics Institute

Downloads 2,935

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The Globalization of Innovation: Pharmaceuticals: Can India and China Cure the Global Pharmaceutical Market

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 11 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2014

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Vivek Wadhwa, Ben A. Rissing, G. Gereffi, John Trumpbour and Pete Engardio

Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, Pratt School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Behavioral Policy Science (BPS), Duke University - Department of Sociology - Director, Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness, Harvard University - Labor and Worklife Program and BusinessWeek

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Conceptualizing the 'Fat Tax': The Role of Food Taxes in Developed Economies

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 286

Number of pages: 107 Posted: 05 Jul 2004

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Jeff Strnad

Stanford Law School

Downloads 2,445

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Seven Challenges for the Implementation of Balanced Scorecard in Hospitals

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 May 2006

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Bruno Folly Guimarães e Silva and Victor Prochnik

Tata Consultancy Services and Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Downloads 2,409

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'It's a Designer Baby!' - Opinions on Regulation of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

UCLA Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 3, 2005

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Feb 2011

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Bratislav Stankovic

Loyola University Chicago

Downloads 2,299

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Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Susan M. Wolf, FEMINISM & BIOETHICS: BEYOND REPRODUCTION, pp. 282-317, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Jan 2011

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Susan M. Wolf

University of Minnesota Law School

Downloads 2,291

13.

Vanishing Vaccinations: Why Are So Many Americans Opting Out of Vaccinating Their Children?

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 353-440 (2004)

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 14 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Steve Calandrillo

University of Washington - School of Law

Downloads 2,273

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Supersizing Supercenters? The Impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Body Mass Index and Obesity

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 05 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2010

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Charles Courtemanche and Art Carden

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro - Department of Economics and Brock School of Business, Samford University

Downloads 2,265

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Education and Hiv/Aids Prevention: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4024

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer and Samuel Sinei

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Dartmouth College - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

Downloads 2,154

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Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in the Rural South and Mississippi

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 07-04

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Feb 2007

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Douglas Almond Jr., Kenneth Y. Chay and Michael Greenstone

Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Department of Economics

Downloads 2,115

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'Just the Oven': A Law & Economics Approach to Gestational Surrogacy Contracts

PERSPECTIVES FOR THE UNIFICATION OR HARMONISATION OF FAMILY LAW IN EUROPE, pp. 412-433, Katharina Boele-Woelki, ed., Antwerp: Intersentia, 2003

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Mar 2003 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2009

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Aristides N. Hatzis

University of Athens - Department of Philosophy & History of Science

Downloads 2,024

18.

A Ranking of Journals for the Health Economist

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 04 May 2013

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M. Ryan Haley

University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

Downloads 2,008

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Internet’s Dirty Secret: Assessing the Impact of Online Intermediaries on HIV Transmission

Chan J., and Ghose A., "Internet’s Dirty Secret: Assessing the Impact of Online Intermediaries on HIV Transmission", MIS Quarterly, 38(4), p. 955-976.,

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 07 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 28 May 2015

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Jason Chan and Anindya Ghose

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,971

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Household Food Security in the United States, 2004

USDA-ERS Economic Research Report No. 11

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 27 Jan 2006

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Mark Nord, Margaret Andrews and Steven Carlson

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)

Downloads 1,962

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From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory

Minerva Center for Economic Growth Working Paper No. 2004-1

Number of pages: 108 Posted: 08 Jul 2004

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Oded Galor

Brown University - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

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Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn't, and Why? An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition

Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 34, pp. 501-16, 2010, Cultural Cognition Project Working Paper No. 38, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-19, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 163

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 17 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

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Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman, Geoffrey L. Cohen, Paul Slovic and John Gastil

Yale University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School, University of Colorado - Department of Psychology, Decision Research and Pennsylvania State University

Downloads 1,954

23.

Do Budgets Really Matter? Evidence from Public Spending on Education and Health in Uganda

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1926

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Emmanuel Ablo and Ritva Reinikka

World Bank and The World Bank

Downloads 1,846

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Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive?: A Bayesian Decision Analysis of Clinical Trial Design

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2016

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Leah Isakov, Andrew W. Lo and Vahid Montazerhodjat

Pfizer, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,836

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Transplant Tourism: The Ethics and Regulation of International Markets for Organs

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2013

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 22 Apr 2013

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I. Glenn Cohen

Harvard Law School

Downloads 1,774

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Unpatentable Drugs and the Standards of Patentability

Texas Law Review, Vol. 87, pp. 503-570, 2009

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 04 May 2008 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2013

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Benjamin N. Roin

MIT Sloan

Downloads 1,767

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What can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 503; Zurich IEER Working Paper No. 80

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 31 May 2001

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Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer

CREMA and University of Basel - Faculty of Business and Economics

Downloads 1,757

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Diffusion Theory and Knowledge Dissemination, Utilization, and Integration in Public Health

Annual Review of Public Health, Vol. 30, p. 151, January 2009

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Jan 2012

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Lawrence W. Green, Judith Ottoson, Cesar Garcia and Hiatt Robert

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) - School of Medicine, San Francisco State University, Central Washington University and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,715

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Community Competence to Regulate the Internal Market

Michael Dougan and Samantha Currie, 50 YEARS OF EUROPEAN TREATIES, Chapter 5, pp. 93-136, Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, Oregon, 2009, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 9/2007

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 06 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 02 May 2010

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Derrick Wyatt

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

Downloads 1,686

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The Economics of Corruption in Sports: The Special Case of Doping

Edmond J. Safra Working Papers, No. 55

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Jan 2015

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Eugen Dimant and Christian Deutscher

University of Pennsylvania, Behavioral Ethics Lab and Bielefeld University

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,620

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Genes, Economics, and Happiness

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2946

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Feb 2010

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Jan‐Emmanuel De Neve, Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler and Bruno S. Frey

University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School - Department of Health Care Policy, UC San Diego Division of Social Sciences and CREMA

Downloads 1,612

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Who Owns the Media?

Harvard Institute of Economic Research Paper No. 1919; World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2620

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 26 Apr 2001

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Simeon Djankov, Caralee McLiesh, Tatiana Nenova and Andrei Shleifer

London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), World Bank - International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank, South Asia and Harvard University - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,583

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Fast Food, Soft Drink, and Candy Intake Is Unrelated to Body Mass Index for 95% oAmerican Adults

Just, David and Brian Wansink (2015), “Fast Food, Soft Drink, and Candy Intake is Unrelated to Body Mass Index for 95% of American Adults.” Obesity Science and Practice, 1:2, 126-130.,

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 02 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2017

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David Just and Brian Wansink

Cornell University - Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Cornell University

Downloads 1,548

34.

The Value of Life

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, 2nd Edition, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-04

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2012

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W. Kip Viscusi

Vanderbilt University - Law School

Downloads 1,519

35.

Consumer Directed Health Care

Networks Financial Institute Policy Brief No. 2006-PB-20

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 14 May 2007

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John C. Goodman

National Center for Policy Analysis

Downloads 1,494

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Privacy Protection and Technology Diffusion: The Case of Electronic Medical Records

NET Institute Working Paper No. 07-16

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2014

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Amalia R. Miller and Catherine E. Tucker

University of Virginia - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Management Science (MS)

Downloads 1,470

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Poverty, Education, and Health in Indonesia: Who Benefits from Public Spending?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2739

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Peter F. Lanjouw, Menno Prasad Pradhan, Fadia Saadah, Haneen Sayed and Robert A. Sparrow

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), VU University Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, World Bank - East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Downloads 1,456

38.

An International, Moral & Legal Perspective: The Call for Legalization of Surrogacy in India

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 05 Jul 2007

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Raghav Sharma

National Law University Jodhpur (NLUJ)

Downloads 1,455

39.

Health Care Systems: Efficiency and Institutions

OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 769

Number of pages: 133 Posted: 29 May 2010 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2010

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Isabelle Joumard, Christophe Andre and Chantal Nicq

Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Economics Department (ECO), Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Economics Department (ECO) and Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Policy Studies Branch

Downloads 1,442

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Ethnic Minorities and Mental Health

Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 17, pp. 351-383, 1991

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2011

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William A. Vega and Rubén G. Rumbaut

University of Southern California and University of California, Irvine - Department of Sociology

Downloads 1,414

41.

The Health Care Quadrilemma: An Essay on Technological Change, Insurance, Quality of Care, and Cost Containment

Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 523-552, June 1991

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 May 2011

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Burton A. Weisbrod

Northwestern University - Department of Economics

Downloads 1,406

42.

Selection and Moral Hazard in the Reverse Mortgage Market

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 25 Oct 2004

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Thomas Davidoff and Gerd Welke

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Baruch College - Zicklin School Business - Real Estate Department

Downloads 1,404

43.

Preventing and Responding to Gender-Based Violence in Middle and Low-Income Countries: A Global Review and Analysis

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3618

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 13 Jul 2005

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Sarah Bott, Andrew Morrison and Mary Ellsberg

Independent, World Bank - Latin America and Caribbean Region and Independent

Downloads 1,397

44.

Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Indian Health Care

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 09 Dec 2012

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Dr. Ramakrishnan

Classic Consultants

Downloads 1,357

45.

Soldiers Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Long-Term Costs of Providing Veterans Medical Care and Disability Benefits

KSG Working Paper No. RWP07-001

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Jan 2007

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Linda Bilmes

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

Downloads 1,344

46.

The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 78

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Jun 1999

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Richard A. Posner and Tomas Philipson

University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,305

47.

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: The Role of Infrastructure

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3163

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Danny Leipziger, Marianne Fay, Quentin T. Wodon and Tito Yepes

World Bank, World Bank, World Bank and World Bank

Downloads 1,302

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The Loss Causation Requirement for Rule 10b-5 Causes-of-Action: The Implication of Dura Pharmaceuticals v. Broudo

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 596

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 16 Aug 2007

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Allen Ferrell and Atanu Saha

Harvard Law School and Compass Lexecon

Downloads 1,301

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Outdoor Recreation, Health, and Wellness: Understanding and Enhancing the Relationship

RFF Discussion Paper No. 09-21

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 29 May 2009

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Geoffrey Godbey

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 1,295

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Challenges in Managing Nonprofit Organizations: A Research Overview

International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 15, No. 2, p. 101-116, June 2004

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 12 Sep 2006

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Bernd Helmig, Marc Jegers and Irvine Lapsley

Department of Business Administration, Chair Public & Nonprofit Management, Free University of Brussels (VUB) - Micro-Economics for Profit and Non Profit Sector (MICE) and IPSAR, University of Edinburgh Business School

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