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We study how elected politicians who hold strong bargaining power due to their pivotal position in the legislative process use their leverage to benefit home district firms. U.S. senators from politically-centrist states possess greater political leverage than senators from politically-partisan...
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Despite the ever-growing influence of shareholders in corporate governance, interested voting is a topic that has not been fully explored. While the law is attentive to transactions with a controlling shareholder, such transactions hardly cover all instances in which an interested shareholder...
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Electoral rules determine how voters' preferences are aggregated and translated into political representation, and their design can lead to the election of representatives who represent broader or narrower constituencies. Relying on a regression discontinuity design, I contrast single- and...
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Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
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