1.
Conspiracy Theories
Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08-03, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 199, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 387
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 17 Jan 2008
Last Revised: 18 Jan 2010
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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46,006
2.
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 783-827, February 2009, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 491 (2004)
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 21 Sep 2004
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
There are 2 versions of this paper
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 783-827, February 2009, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 491 (2004)
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 21 Sep 2004
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2009
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34,265
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 783-827, 2009
Posted: 25 Jan 2009
Downloads
34,265
3.
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 12 Aug 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School and University of Chicago
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime
NBER Working Paper No. w8004
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 12 Nov 2000
Last Revised: 25 Jun 2001
Downloads
273
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25,401
4.
Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases
University of Michigan Law and Economics Research Paper, No. 12-018
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 10 Sep 2012
Last Revised: 27 Nov 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Michigan Law School
Downloads
20,387
5.
The Storrs Lectures: Behavioral Economics and Paternalism
Yale Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 02 Dec 2012
Last Revised: 22 Nov 2017
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads
16,084
6.
What is Corporate Law?
Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 300
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 27 Jul 2004
Last Revised: 26 Jan 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
14,161
7.
The End of History for Corporate Law
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 10 Mar 2000
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
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12,848
8.
Audit Committee, Board of Director Characteristics, and Earnings Management
NYU, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-42
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 22 Nov 2000
Working Paper Series
New York University (NYU) - Department of Accounting
There are 3 versions of this paper
Audit Committee, Board of Director Characteristics, and Earnings Management
NYU, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-42
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 22 Nov 2000
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12,533
Audit Committee, Board of Director Characteristics, and Earnings Management
NYU Working Paper No. 2451/27450
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 08 Oct 2008
Downloads
990
Audit Committee, Board of Director Characteristics, and Earnings Management
Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 33, No. 3, August 2002, pp. 375-400
Posted: 26 Aug 2002
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12,533
9.
The Essential Elements of Corporate Law
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 387, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper No. 643, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-39, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 134/2009
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 21 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
12,525
10.
Mergers and Acquisitions in Europe
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 114/2006, CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2006-06
Number of pages: 83
Posted: 01 Feb 2006
Working Paper Series
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
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12,421
11.
Regulating Bankers' Pay
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 98, No. 2, pp. 247-287, 2010, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 641
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 30 May 2009
Last Revised: 08 Oct 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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11,901
12.
Does Corporate Governance Predict Firms' Market Values? Evidence from Korea
post-publication version, published in Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall 2006, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 86/2005, KDI School of Pub Policy & Management Paper No. 02-04, McCombs Research Paper Series No. 02-05, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 237, U of Texas law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 26
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 20 Jan 2005
Last Revised: 20 Nov 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Korea University - Department of Finance and Korea University Business School
There are 3 versions of this paper
Does Corporate Governance Predict Firms' Market Values? Evidence from Korea
post-publication version, published in Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall 2006, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 86/2005, KDI School of Pub Policy & Management Paper No. 02-04, McCombs Research Paper Series No. 02-05, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 237, U of Texas law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 26
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 20 Jan 2005
Last Revised: 20 Nov 2018
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11,728
Does Corporate Governance Predict Firms' Market Values? Evidence from Korea
nearly final pre-publication version, published in Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 22, 366-413 (2006)
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 29 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 11 Jul 2012
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201
Does Corporate Governance Predict Firms' Market Values? Evidence from Korea
The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 366-413, 2006
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
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11,728
13.
How Computer Automation Affects Occupations: Technology, Jobs, and Skills
Boston Univ. School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 15-49
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 15 Nov 2015
Last Revised: 04 Oct 2016
Working Paper Series
Technology & Policy Research Initiative, BU School of Law
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11,697
14.
The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change
Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-26, Cultural Cognition Project Working Paper No. 89, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 435, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 230
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 24 Jun 2011
Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Law School, Fordham University School of Law, Ohio State University - Psychology Department, Decision Research, Stanford Law School, George Washington University - Law School and Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
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11,653
15.
The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design
Virginia Law Review, Vol. 92, p. 1687, 2006, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 06-04
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 26 Jan 2006
Last Revised: 10 Jun 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and New York University School of Law
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11,614
16.
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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11,308
17.
Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be...Lawyers
Vanderbilt Law and Economics Working Paper No. 09-29
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 31 Oct 2009
Last Revised: 12 Jan 2010
Working Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School
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11,155
18.
The Case for Increasing Shareholder Power
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 118, No. 3, pp. 833-914, January 2005, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 500
Number of pages: 82
Posted: 17 Mar 2003
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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10,503
19.
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
Working Paper Series
Crime Prevention Research Center and Crime Prevention Research Center
There are 2 versions of this paper
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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10,313
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10,313
20.
Keeping the Internet Neutral?: Tim Wu and Christopher Yoo Debate
Federal Communications Law Journal, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2007, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 06-27, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Working Paper No. 06-30, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 310
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 12 Jan 2007
Last Revised: 23 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia University - Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School
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10,302
21.
The Promise and Perils of Credit Derivatives
University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 75, p. 1019, 2007, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-22, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-36, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-74
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 13 Sep 2006
Last Revised: 20 Mar 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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10,098
22.
Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues
Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 647-673, 2005, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 8-22, 2005, Academy of Management Perspectives, pp. 5-24, February 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 528
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 19 Jul 2005
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
10,087
23.
The Wages of Failure: Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman 2000-2008
Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 27, 2010, pp. 257-282, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 657, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 287
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 26 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 01 Dec 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
10,004
24.
The Future as History: The Prospects for Global Convergence in Corporate Governance and its Implications
Columbia Law School Center for Law and Economic Studies Working Paper No. 144
Number of pages: 141
Posted: 04 Jan 1999
Working Paper Series
Columbia Law School
Downloads
9,893
25.
A Theory of Corporate Scandals: Why the U.S. And Europe Differ
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 30 Mar 2005
Working Paper Series
Columbia Law School
Downloads
9,089
26.
The Law and Legality of Smart Contracts
1 Georgetown Law Technology Review 304 (2017)
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 25 Sep 2016
Accepted Paper Series
New York University School of Law
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9,074
27.
Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 155, p. 1021, 2007, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-16, NYU, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-37, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 76/2006
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 25 Jul 2006
Last Revised: 21 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 155, p. 1021, 2007, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-16, NYU, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-37, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 76/2006
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 25 Jul 2006
Last Revised: 21 May 2009
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8,766
Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control.
NYU Working Paper No. CLB-06-012
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 31 Oct 2008
Downloads
190
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8,766
28.
A Century of Corporate Takeovers: What Have We Learned and Where Do We Stand? (previous title: The History of M&A Activity Around the World: A Survey of Literature)
Journal of Banking and Finance, 2008, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 97/2005
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 06 Oct 2005
Last Revised: 10 Jan 2009
Accepted Paper Series
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
Downloads
8,708
29.
Explaining the Housing Bubble
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 100, No. 4, pp. 1177-1258, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 10-15, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 10-60, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-16
Number of pages: 82
Posted: 01 Sep 2010
Last Revised: 07 May 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center and University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, Department of Real Estate
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8,426
30.
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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8,010
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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8,010
31.
The Non-Correlation between Board Independence and Long-Term Firm Performance
Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 185
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 03 Oct 1998
Accepted Paper Series
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Non-Correlation between Board Independence and Long-Term Firm Performance
Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 185
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 03 Oct 1998
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7,900
The Non-Correlation between Board Independence And Long-Term Firm Performance
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 03 Jan 2003
Downloads
756
Downloads
7,900
32.
Public Schooling, Indoctrination, and Totalitarianism
John R. Lott, Jr., "Public Schooling, Indoctrination, and Totalitarianism," Journal of Political Economy
Vol. 107, No. S6 (December 1999), pp. S127-S157
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 03 May 1999
Last Revised: 03 Aug 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Crime Prevention Research Center
Downloads
7,772
33.
Shareholder Activism and Institutional Investors
UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 05-20
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 07 Sep 2005
Working Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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7,686
34.
Russian Privatization and Corporate Governance: What Went Wrong?
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 22 Sep 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Harvard Law School and University of Maryland - Center on Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS)
Downloads
7,626
35.
Understanding Enron: It's About the Gatekeepers, Stupid
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 22 Aug 2002
Working Paper Series
Columbia Law School
Downloads
7,540
36.
What Caused Enron?: A Capsule Social and Economic History of the 1990's
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 29 Jan 2003
Working Paper Series
Columbia Law School
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7,412
37.
A Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis
The Economists' Voice, Vol. 5, No. 5, Article 6, 2008, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 620, September 2008
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 26 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 29 Jun 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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7,381
38.
Market vs. Regulatory Responses to Corporate Fraud: A Critique of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 23 Oct 2002
Accepted Paper Series
University of Illinois College of Law (deceased)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Market vs. Regulatory Responses to Corporate Fraud: A Critique of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 23 Oct 2002
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7,337
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7,337
39.
The Law of Group Polarization
University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 91
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 13 Dec 1999
Working Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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7,260
40.
The Long-Term Operating Performance of European Mergers and Acquisitions
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 137/2006, TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2006-030
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 14 Nov 2006
Working Paper Series
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Tilburg University and Tilburg University - Department of Finance
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7,079
41.
Two and Twenty: Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds
New York University Law Review, 2008, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-27, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 06-11
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 23 Mar 2006
Accepted Paper Series
UC-Irvine School of Law
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6,966
42.
Agency Problems, Legal Strategies, and Enforcement
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 388, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper Series No. 644
, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 135/2009
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 21 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
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6,944
43.
Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance
Journal of Finance, Vol. 63, p. 1729, 2008, European Corporate Governance Institute (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: 62
Posted: 05 Apr 2007
Last Revised: 09 Nov 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics, Vanderbilt University - Law School and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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6,927
44.
A Theory of Path Dependence in Corporate Ownership and Governance
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 52, pp. 127-170, 1999, Columbia Law School, Center for Studies in Law & Economics Paper No. 131, November 1999
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 03 Jan 2000
Last Revised: 26 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
6,874
45.
Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 4, 1999, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 181, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 384
Number of pages: 90
Posted: 30 Oct 1998
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University - Department of Economics and Harvard Law School
Downloads
6,799
46.
The Uncertain Relationship between Board Composition and Firm Performance
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 17 Oct 1997
Accepted Paper Series
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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6,781
47.
Valuable Patents
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 92, p. 435, 2004, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 03-31, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 133
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 30 Jul 2003
Working Paper Series
University of Texas - McCombs School of Business, Stanford Law School, affiliation not provided to SSRN and CBO
There are 2 versions of this paper
Valuable Patents
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 92, p. 435, 2004, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 03-31, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 133
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 30 Jul 2003
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6,756
Valuable Patents
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 92, p. 435, 2004, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 03-31
Posted: 02 May 2007
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6,756
48.
How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?
Number of pages: 75
Posted: 15 Apr 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Crime Prevention Research Center
Downloads
6,744
49.
Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality
Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2012-1
Number of pages: 150
Posted: 20 Feb 2012
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
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6,673
50.
The Legal and Institutional Preconditions for Strong Securities Markets
UCLA Law Review, vol. 48, pp. 781-855, 2001, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 179
Number of pages: 75
Posted: 06 Oct 1999
Last Revised: 27 Jan 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Downloads
6,666
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