Law & Economics
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Shleifer

Andrei Shleifer

Economist of law, finance, corporate governance, and institutions

law and financecorporate governancebehavioral finance

Official Source Note

Harvard's Department of Economics lists Shleifer as the John L. Loeb Professor of Economics and describes his work in comparative corporate governance, law and finance, behavioral finance, and institutional economics.

Shleifer is included because his work, often with La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, and Vishny, made legal institutions, investor protection, ownership structure, and financial development central to law-and-finance research.

Source: Harvard Department of Economics

Relevance to the Archive

For corporate and securities law, Shleifer's work supplies the comparative frame for asking how legal protection and enforcement shape capital markets and ownership structure.

Representative Contributions

  • A Survey of Corporate Governance (1997)
  • Law and Finance (1998)
  • The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins (2008)

Works Included Here