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The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Methodology and Analytical Issues

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5430

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Sep 2010

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Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi

Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute

Downloads 51,695

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Economic Consequences of Financial Reporting and Disclosure Regulation: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 13 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 07 May 2008

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Christian Leuz and Peter D. Wysocki

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Miami - School of Business Administration

Downloads 20,506

3.

Corporate Social Responsibility - An Economic and Financial Framework

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Jan 2005

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Geoffrey M. Heal

Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics

Downloads 10,404

4.

The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism

Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 802, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 115, 2015, pp. 1085-1156, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-66

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 07 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2015

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Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alon Brav and Wei Jiang

Harvard Law School, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 9,197

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The Concept and the Rule of Law

Georgia Law Review, Forthcoming, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-50

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 25 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2008

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Jeremy Waldron

New York University School of Law

Downloads 6,539

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Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance

Journal of Finance, Vol. 63, p. 1729, 2008, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 139/2006, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-28, FDIC Center for Financial Research Working Paper No. 2008-06

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 05 Apr 2007

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Alon Brav, Wei Jiang, Randall S. Thomas and Frank Partnoy

Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics, Vanderbilt University - Law School and University of San Diego School of Law

Downloads 6,250

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An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 74, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Working Paper No. 11-05

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 Dec 2005

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Todd J. Moss, Gunilla Pettersson Gelander and Nicolas van de Walle

Center for Global Development, Birk Consulting and Cornell University

Downloads 5,361

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The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 3, pp. 675-732, 2007, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 567, October 2005

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 23 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2009

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Lucian A. Bebchuk

Harvard Law School

Downloads 5,318

9.

Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 12-22

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 21 Aug 2012

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Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson and Thierry Verdier

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Government and Paris School of Economics (PSE)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,590

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International Differences in the Cost of Equity Capital: Do Legal Institutions and Securities Regulation Matter?

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 15/2003, Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Working Paper No. 17-04, AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 21 Dec 2004

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Luzi Hail and Christian Leuz

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,352

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The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility

Goldman School of Public Policy Working Paper No. GSPP08-003

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 25 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2008

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Robert B. Reich

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 4,333

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Making of A Successful Entrepreneur: Anatomy of an Entrepreneur Part II

Kauffman Foundation Small Research Projects Research Paper No. 2

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Nov 2009

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Vivek Wadhwa, Raj Aggarwal, Krisztina Holly and Alex Salkever

Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, Pratt School of Engineering, University of Akron, University of Southern California and Duke University - Pratt School of Engineering

Downloads 3,965

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Human Nature and Institutional Analysis

NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS: A GUIDEBOOK, Eric Brousseau and Jean-Michel Glachant, eds., pp. 81-99, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UPF Economics and Business Working Paper No. 822

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2008

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Benito Arruñada

Pompeu Fabra University

Downloads 3,802

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The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age

Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2006-09

Number of pages: 117 Posted: 10 Aug 2006

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William McGeveran and William W. Fisher III

University of Minnesota Law School and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Downloads 3,406

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Stakeholder Influence Capacity and the Variability of Financial Returns to Corporate Social Responsibility

Academy of Management Review, October 2005

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 23 Nov 2005

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Michael L. Barnett

Rutgers Business School, Newark & New Brunswick

Downloads 3,311

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Economic Analysis of Law

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 316, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 536

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Nov 2005

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A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,171

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The Institutions of Corporate Governance

Handbook of New Institutional Economics (Claude Ménard & Mary M. Shirley, eds.) (Kluwer, 2005), Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 488,

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 Oct 2004 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Mark J. Roe

Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,139

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The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins

Journal of Economic Literature, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 09 Nov 2007

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Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez de Silanes and Andrei Shleifer

Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, SKEMA Business School and Harvard University - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,112

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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Superior Financial Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2013

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Caroline Flammer

Boston University

Downloads 3,090

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The Risk Externalities of Too Big to Fail

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (17), 3503-3507

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 01 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2017

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Charles S. Tapiero

NYU-Tandon School of Engineering and NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering - Department of Finance and Risk Engineering

Downloads 2,999

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Different Approaches to Corporate Reporting Regulation: How Jurisdictions Differ and Why

Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets Research Paper No. 53, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 156/2010

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 30 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 31 May 2010

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Christian Leuz

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Downloads 2,991

22.

The Elusive Quest for Global Governance Standards

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, pp. 1263-1317, 2009, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 633

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015

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Lucian A. Bebchuk and Assaf Hamdani

Harvard Law School and Hebrew University - Faculty of Law

Downloads 2,975

23.

Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility - A New Perspective

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Apr 2007

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K. V. Bhanu Murthy

University of Delhi - School of Economics - Commerce Department

Downloads 2,722

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Virtual Worlds, Virtual Economies, Virtual Institutions

Virtual Worlds and New Realities Conference at Emory University, February 2008

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2014

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David A. Bray and Benn Konsynski

Harvard University and Emory University - Goizueta Business School

Downloads 2,683

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Case Study of the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch Merger

U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-21

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 28 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2015

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Robert J. Rhee

University of Florida - Levin College of Law

Downloads 2,665

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Corporate Finance in Europe: A Survey

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 121/2006, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 06-17

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Apr 2006

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Francois Degeorge and Ernst G. Maug

University of Lugano - Faculty of Economics and University of Mannheim Business School

Downloads 2,625

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The Market for Corporate Law

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 162, pp. 134-172, 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 377

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Jun 2001 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2009

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Oren Bar-Gill, Michal Barzuza and Lucian A. Bebchuk

Harvard Law School, University of Virginia School of Law and Harvard Law School

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,543

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Resource Based View (RBV) of Competitive Advantages: Importance, Issues and Implications

KHOJ Journal of Indian Management Research and Practices, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp 2-12, May-August 2009

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2013

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Pankaj M. Madhani

ICFAI Business School (IBS)

Downloads 2,525

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Digital Currencies: Principles, Trends, Opportunities, and Risks

Number of pages: 110 Posted: 12 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2016

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Paolo Tasca

UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies

Downloads 2,420

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Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their Implications for Economic Performance

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 31 May 2012 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2012

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Aldo Musacchio and Sérgio G. Lazzarini

Brandeis University- International Business School and Insper Institute of Education and Research

Downloads 2,352

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Transaction Cost Economics

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 13 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2012

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Steven Tadelis and Oliver E. Williamson

University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Business & Public Policy Group

Downloads 2,342

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An Introduction to IAD and the Language of the Ostrom Workshop: A Simple Guide to a Complex Framework for the Analysis of Institutions and Their Development

Policy Studies Journal, March 2011, Indiana University-Bloomington: School of Public & Environmental Affairs Research Paper Series No. 2011-02-01

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2011

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Michael D. McGinnis

Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Political Science

Downloads 2,317

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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 2,272

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On the Evolutionary Origin of Prospect Theory Preferences

Journal of Politics, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 335-350, April 2008

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2008

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Rose McDermott, James H. Fowler and Oleg Smirnov

University of California, Santa Barbara - Department of Political Science, UC San Diego Division of Social Sciences and State University of New York (SUNY) - Department of Political Science

Downloads 2,222

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The Perception of and Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4308

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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David J. Maddison

University College London - Department of Economics

Downloads 2,191

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Recasting the Sovereign Wealth Fund Debate: Trust, Legitimacy, and Governance

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 May 2008 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2009

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Ashby H. B. Monk

Stanford University - Global Projects Center

Downloads 2,173

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How Many Varieties of Capitalism? Comparing the Comparative Institutional Analyses of Capitalist Diversity

MPIfG Discussion Paper No. 06/2

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Apr 2006

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Gregory Jackson and Richard Deeg

Freie Universität Berlin and Temple University

Downloads 2,171

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Shareholder Primacy in Corporate Law: Can it Survive? Should it Survive?

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2010

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Andrew R. Keay

University of Leeds - School of Law

Downloads 2,155

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Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development: An Empirical Test of the Legal Origins Hypothesis

University of Cambridge, CBR Working Paper, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 108/2008

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 20 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2010

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John Armour, Simon Deakin, Prabirjit Sarkar, Mathias M. Siems and Ajit Singh

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge, Centre for Business Research , Durham University - Durham Law School and United Nations

Downloads 2,150

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Productivity Through Coffee Breaks: Changing Social Networks by Changing Break Structure

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Apr 2010

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Benjamin N. Waber, Daniel Olguin Olguin, Taemie Kim and Alex Pentland

MIT - Media Laboratory, MIT - Media Laboratory, MIT - Media Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Downloads 2,110

41.

Consumer Contracts: Behavioral Economics vs. Neoclassical Economics

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-17, Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 92, 2007-2008

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 25 Apr 2007

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Oren Bar-Gill and Richard A. Epstein

Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law

Downloads 2,103

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Conflict and Cooperation within an Organization: A Case Study of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

Number of pages: 176 Posted: 08 May 2008 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2012

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David Zetland

Leiden University - Leiden University College

Downloads 2,089

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A Model of China's State Capitalism

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 20 May 2012 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2015

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Xi Li, Xuewen Liu and Yong Wang

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

Downloads 2,038

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Taxation and Corporate Governance: An Economic Approach

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 May 2007

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Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala

Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and University of Chicago Law School

Downloads 2,017

45.

The Institutional Nature of Price Bubbles

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2008

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Sheen S. Levine and Edward J. Zajac

University of Texas at Dallas and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Business

Downloads 1,984

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Accountability and Institutional Design: Some Thoughts on the Grammar of Governance

Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 116, PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY: DESIGNS, DILEMMAS AND EXPERIENCES, Michael Dowdle, ed., Cambridge University Press, Chapter 5, pp. 115-156, 2006

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 01 Nov 2006

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Jerry Louis Mashaw

Yale Law School

Downloads 1,945

47.

Innovations in Microfinance - Looking beyond Income Poverty

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 21 Apr 2009

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V. Basil Hans

St. Aloysius Evening College

Downloads 1,877

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Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse

American Political Science Review, Vol. 105, No. 1, pp. 1-26, 2011

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 10 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 25 May 2013

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Stephen Haber and Victor A. Menaldo

Stanford University - Hoover Institution and Political Science and University of Washington - Department of Political Science

Downloads 1,862

49.

How to Capture the Heart? Reviewing 20 Years of Emotion Measurement in Advertising

KUL Working Paper No. MO 0605

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 14 Nov 2006

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Karolien Poels and Siegfried Dewitte

Ghent University-Universiteit Gent - Department of Communication Studies and KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB)

Downloads 1,825

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Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared

American Economic Review, May 2010

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 09 Jan 2010

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Avner Greif and Guido Tabellini

Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of Bocconi - Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER)

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,793

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