Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
TuckDartmouth
Rafael La Porta, Noble Foundation Professor of Finance
PAPERS IN JOURNALS    

Disclaimer: Where available, titles link to PDFs of pre-publication drafts, not final journal versions.

"The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins " (with Florencio López-de-Silane and Andrei Shleifer), Journal of Economic Literature. Dataset (Excel)

"The Law and Economics of Self-Dealing" (with Simeon Djankov, Florencio López-de-Silane, Andrei Shleifer), Journal of Financial Economics, November 2006. Dataset (Excel)

"The Regulation of Labor," (with Simeon Djankov, Florencio López-de-Silane, Andrei Shleifer, Juan Botero), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2005. Dataset (Excel)

"What Works in Securities Laws," (with Florencio López-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer), Journal of Finance 2005. Supporting documentation: Dataset (Excel) and Documentation (PDF)

"Do Institutions Cause Growth?" (with E. Glaeser, F. López-de-Silanes, and A. Shleifer), Journal of Economic Growth, 2004. Dataset (Excel)

"Judicial Checks and Balances," (with F. López-de-Silanes, C. Pop-Eleches, and A. Shleifer), Journal of Political Economy, 2004. Dataset (Excel) and Documentation (PDF)

The New Comparative Economics” (with S. Djankov, E. Glaeser, F. López-de-Silanes, and A. Shleifer), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2003.

Courts:The Lex Mundi Project,” (with S. Djankov, F. López-de-Silanes, and A. Shleifer), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2003. Dataset (Excel) and Database (Stata)

Related Lending,” (with F. López-de-Silanes), Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2003.

Expectations and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns,” Journal of Finance, December 1996. Reprinted in Harold M. Shefrin ed. Behavioral Finance, Blackwell Publishers Ltd., Northampton, Massachusetts, 2002.

Investor Protection and Corporate Valuation,” (with F. López-de-Silanes and A. Shleifer), Journal of Finance, June 2002. Dataset (Excel)

"The Regulation of Entry," (with S. Djankov, F. López-de-Silanes, and A. Shleifer), Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2002. (Data Description) Dataset (Excel)

Government Ownership of Banks,” (with F. López-de-Silanes and A. Shleifer), Journal of Finance, February 2002. Dataset (Excel)

Law and Finance,” (with F. López-de-Silanes, A. Shleifer and R. Vishny), Journal of Political Economy, December 1998. Reprinted in J. Schwalbach ed., Corporate Governance; Essays in Honor of Horst Albach, Publications of the Society for Economics and Management at Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Springer, 2001. Dataset (Excel)

Legal Determinants of External Finance,” (with F. López-de-Silanes, A. Shleifer and R. Vishny), Journal of Finance, July 1997. Reprinted in Empirical Corporate Finance, The International Library of Critical Writings in Financial Economics, Richard Roll (series editor) and Michael J. Brennan (editor), 2000. Dataset (Excel)

Investor Protection and Corporate Governance,” (with F. López-de- Silanes, A. Shleifer and R. Vishny), Journal of Financial Economics, October 2000. Dataset (Excel)

Tunnelling,” (with S. Johnson, F. López-de-Silanes, A. Shleifer and R. Vishny), American Economic Review Papers Proceedings, May 2000.

Agency Problems and Dividend Policies Around the World,” (with F. López-de-Silanes, A. Shleifer and R. Vishny), Journal of Finance, February 2000.

Trust in Large Organizations,” (with F. López-de-Silanes, A. Shleifer and R. Vishny), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1997. Reprinted in P. Dasgupta and I. Serageldin, eds. Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective, Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1999. Dataset (Excel)

The Benefits of Privatization: Evidence from México,” (with F. López-de-Silanes), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1999.

Corporate Ownership Around the World,” (with F. López-de-Silanes, and A. Shleifer), Journal of Finance, April 1999.

The Quality of Government,” (with F. López-de-Silanes, A. Shleifer and R. Vishny), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, April 1999. Dataset (Excel)

Good News for Value Stocks: Further Evidence on Market Efficiency,” (with J. Lakonishok, A. Shleifer and R. Vishny), Journal of Finance, June 1997.

A New Bankruptcy Procedure That Uses Multiple Auctions,” (with O. Hart, F. López-de-Silanes and J. Moore), European Economic Review, April 1997.





 

 
Other Publications  

"Capital Markets and Legal Institutions," (with F. López-de-Silanes), in Beyond the Washington Consensus: Institutions Matter, December 1998.

"Proposal for a New Bankruptcy Procedure in Emerging Markets," (with O. Hart, F. López-de-Silanes and J. Moore). In Edward I. Altman, editor, The Future of Emerging Market Capital Flows. Illinois: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1997.

"What Moves the Discount on Country Equity Funds?" (with G. Hardouvelis and T. Wizman). In Jeff Frankel, editor, The Internationalization of Equity Markets. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.