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Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism
Abadie, Alberto - 2004
-specific characteristics such as the level of political freedom are taken into account. Political freedom is shown to explain terrorism, but it … does so in a non-monotonic way: countries in some intermediate range of political freedom are shown to be more prone to … terrorism than countries with high levels of political freedom or countries with highly authoritarian regimes. This result …
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Rising Burdens of Proofs and The Grand Bargain of Workers’ Compensation Laws
Yuan, Andy - 2020
Nearly every state has amended workers' compensation laws in the last two decades and the national averages of cash and medical benefits paid per covered worker have declined. As a result, writers have suggested that the states might be cutting back on workers' compensation benefits. We show...
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Advance Directives and Medical Treatment at the End of Life
Kessler, Daniel - 2003
To assess the consequences of advance medical directives -- which explicitly specify a patient's preferences for one or more specific types of medical treatment in the event of a loss of competence we analyze the medical care of elderly Medicare beneficiaries who died between 1985-1995. We...
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Firms' Decisions Where to Incorporate
Bebchuk, Lucian - 2002
This paper empirically investigates the decisions of publicly traded firms where to incorporate. We study the features of states that make them attractive to incorporating firms and the characteristics of firms that determine whether they incorporate in or out of their state of location. We find...
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Bankruptcy and Small Firms' Access to Credit
Berkowitz, Jeremy - 2002
In this paper, we investigate how personal bankruptcy law affects small firms' access to credit. When a firm is unincorporated, its debts are personal liabilities of the firm's owner, so that lending to the firm is legally equivalent to lending to its owner. If the firm fails, the owner has an...
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A New Approach to Takeover Law and Regulatory Competition
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 2001
The development of U.S. state takeover law in the past three decades has produced considerable and quite possibly excessive protection for incumbent managers from hostile takeovers. Although the shortcomings of state takeover law have been widely recognized, there has been little support for...
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Rugged Individualism and Collective (In)action During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bazzi, Samuel - 2020
Rugged individualism--the combination of individualism and anti-statism--is a prominent feature of American culture with deep roots in the country's history of frontier settlement. Today, rugged individualism is more prevalent in counties with greater total frontier experience (TFE) during the...
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Manumission in Nineteenth Century Virginia
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010
A long-standing debate concerns the rationality of slave owners and this paper addresses that debate within the context of manumission. Using a new sample of 19th-century Virginia manumissions, I show that manumission was associated with the productive characteristics of slaves. More productive...
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Lost Decades : Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Bates, Robert H. - 2006
Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political...
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The Guarantees of Freedom
Porta, Rafael La - 2002
Hayek (1960) distinguishes the institutions of English freedom, which guarantee the independence of judges from … political interference in the administration of justice, from those of American freedom, which allow judges to restrain law … reflect these institutions of English and American freedom, and ask whether these rules predict economic and political freedom …
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